- Christ
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- Nov 07, 2020
Way Quotes
Quotes on finding your own way.
These quotes describe the 'way' things really work - a blunt take on how managers actually get ahead in their careers, and a tongue-in-cheek trick for looking fit without the work. Related reading includes Best Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Delude
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't delude myself into thinking I'll bring anyone around to my way of thinking, especially Sean Hannity.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way that's really daunting.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like pubs too, but it's hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to. I don't want to moan about being recognised but I do get a bit of grief sometimes.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one I remember is going into London, as it was for us in Essex, on New Year's Eve in 1981. There were four of us and we'd had a few lagers on the way. One of my mates threw up in the Tube and then stood up and fell over in it. We thought it was the funniest thing we'd ever seen.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is important to recognize that folklore is not simply a way of obtaining available date about identity for social scientists; it is actually one of the principal means by which an individual and a group discovers or establishes his or its identity.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let me put it this way: I don't plan to retire. What would I do, become a brain surgeon? I mean, a brain surgeon can retire and write novels, but a novelist can't retire and do brain surgery - or at least he better not.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only way you can handle big kinds of questions is to simply state briefly what the truth was. What am I going to tell you about the Holocaust? Would you like three pages about it? I don't think you would... I don't think anything different than you think - it was horrible.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The brutalization of humans by other humans never fails to get to me in some angry-making way. It shot up in me like an explosion.
- Nov 07, 2020
Struggling writers are often advised to pick a simple genre, but it doesn't work that way.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way I work: I pick a country. I learn the political history - I mean I really learn it; I read until it sinks in. Once I read the political history, I can project and find the clandestine history. And then I people it with the characters.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to pay their way. It's like a monastery in a way, and that beautiful refuge has been destroyed by dogma about what this stuff is for.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Le Corbusier is an outstanding writer. His ideas achieved their impact in large measure because he could write so convincingly. His style is utterly clear, brusque, funny and polemical in the best way.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020