John Lanchester Quotes

I think 'community,' in the sense in which politicians use, it is largely a cant term.

John Lanchester

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You can be in terrible shape, and if you take a three-hour walk through the forest and along the river, you're simply not the same as when you started out.

Jim Harrison

WalkRiverForestYouOutShape

I have to say that deporting people and calling them 'bad hombres,' then kicking families out with visa violations, upsets me.

Maz Jobrani

PeopleMeBadSayOutCalling

My father had a handgun on the bedside table, and we were all taught to handle firearms.

John Hickenlooper

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Tolstoy may be right about happy and unhappy families, but in ballet, it works the opposite way: All good ballets are different from each other and all bad ones are alike, at least in one crucial respect - they're all empty.

Robert Gottlieb

GoodRespectHappyUnhappyBadWay

I don't have many hours in a day, as I'm essentially a single parent. But fortunately, I'm a really fast writer. My goal is usually 10 pages a day. Sometimes more, sometimes less, but by the end of the week, I aim for at least 10,000 words.

Michelle Gagnon

DayWordsEndParentWeekGoal

We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations.

Loretta Lynch

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I've been watching 'Lost' on DVD recently. I keep thinking, 'Where are those actors now?' Nobody knows.

Denis O'Hare

ThinkingNobodyLostNowWatching

When you're not good, and you are losing, and a team puts 50 on you, you gotta figure something out.

Chris Harris, Jr.

GoodLosingTeamYouOutSomething

There are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely. That's what I don't like.

Bobby Fischer

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However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.

Bob Filner

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When I was in school, I really thought about soul a lot. I was listening a lot to Bjork and to the Commodores. I really wanted to know how they felt. And especially with Bjork, the music there told me wow, that's really her soul there.

Alice Smith

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My advice for anyone looking to lose weight is to not make it feel like a job.

Rick Ross

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