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- Nov 07, 2020
Like Quotes
Quotes on what people like and why.
These quotes explore liking something, or coming around to it later - one describes disliking Jane Austen before eventually appreciating her work, while another reflects on early interest in mathematics over computers. Related browsing includes Know Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
- Epic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Epic stories, especially 'quest narratives' like 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey,' are brilliant structures for storytelling. The quest lends itself to episodic storytelling.
- Ethics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Excellent, there's nothing quite like a blunt object to reinforce proper administration ethics.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am like any typical teenager.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you're by yourself you have to sort out everything like the shopping and looking after the house.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's interesting in American culture. We like to build people up and then push them off the pedestal, and then we want to see them come back. Like Britney Spears, and a lot of people, it's what we do, and it's not like that in other parts of the world.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can never resist Ruritanian intrigue: I was once charged with the task of offering the Estonian throne to Prince Edward. Feeling like a Dumas Musketeer on a mission, I did so, but he turned it down.
- Complex Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
To make a Frankenstein monster of a complex character like Stalin would have been too simplistic. I wanted to show who he was and, if you like, how he happened.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The vanishing of David Tang is like the unthinkable diappearance of a magnificent palace on a mythical mountaintop. He was a dreammaker, pianist, adventurer, writer, entrepreneur, scholar, connoisseur, and a great friend.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
Believe it or not, some Western analysts in the 1930s insisted that Stalin was a 'moderate,' controlled by extremists like the secret police chief Nikolai Yezhov.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020