John Lanchester Quotes

Chefs get sucked into the trap of 'fine dining' because some guides make it central to their ratings system and because some customers have been trained to focus their expectations on the trappings and not on the food. It's all a gigantic waste of energy.

John Lanchester

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When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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If you're over 52 years old and you're on Facebook, do us all a favor and log off now.

Denis Leary

YouNowOldOverYearsFacebook

I didn't go to university or get a degree, but I hired somebody as a mentor - and that I considered my university education.

Chevy Stevens

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When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.

Constantin Brancusi

EyesWaterThinkRealityFishBody

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

Bruce Schneier

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In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

Arne Jacobsen

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When I'm out there, it's just me. Nobody's controlling me, and I can do whatever I want to do. I'm my own man.

Powers Boothe

ManMeI CanNobodyWantMy Own

If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.

Sydney Madwed

SuccessKnowledgeFocusYourselfYou

The attempts to distort the truth and to hide the facts behind blanket accusations have been undertaken at all stages of the Ukrainian crisis.

Sergei Lavrov

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Don't write something that is your passion project because all it will do is get the passion stomped out of you.

Thomas Lennon

PassionYouWillWriteProjectOut

Because the Second Amendment is an incomprehensible mess, because too many lobbyists have argued that it is an absolute protection of actions and items never considered at the time of our nation's founding, and because there is a clear state interest in protecting the lives of its citizens, the words must be removed from the Constitution.

Kurt Eichenwald

TimeWordsConstitutionNeverMess

I've been dying to go to India, especially to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. I've also heard Bollywood town's a lot of fun!

Kevin Dillon

FunIndiaGoDyingBeenTown

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