- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
The President's announcement sounded less like a national energy plan than like a page from an election-year play book. This Administration's plan to reduce obscene oil company profits is to regulate them less.
- Realist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to think I'm some savage realist.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The skiing center of the world is southeastern Indiana, where I like to call home. It looks like the Alps there; it's crazy.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like most plutocrats, I, too, am a proud and unapologetic capitalist. I have founded, cofounded or funded over 30 companies across a range of industries. I was the first non-family investor in Amazon.com. I cofounded a company called aQuantive that we sold to Microsoft for 6.4 billion dollars. My friends and I, we own a bank.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The theory that if wages go up, employment goes down isn't a physical law like F=MA. It's a moral law, like 'Bedtime is 9:00 P.M.'
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Suddenly, the idea of writing a book was like coming home. I didn't tell anyone except my wife, Clare. I just began.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not shy, exactly, but I am private. I don't like to talk about myself. I had to learn - I was interviewed for print, radio and even TV.
- Overcome
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- Nov 07, 2020
People love Jane Austen, even though those books are absurd to us, because we like the clarity of it: we can see very clearly what Elizabeth Bennett has to overcome, what she has to deal with.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think at times I get treated a bit unfairly, but then so do other athletes in Australia, and I feel like things can change.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like shoes that, no matter where I am, if I see a basketball or tennis court, I can tie them up and play.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020