John Lanchester Quotes

Why should the idea of Western liberal democracy automatically imply unregulated free-market capitalism?

John Lanchester

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I was kind of a tomboy.

Jennifer Connelly

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I have a very angular face, so my makeup routine is focused around softening my features, and I've finally learned how to contour to my advantage.

Andreja Pejic

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'Austerity' is a real weasel word because it's an attempt to make something value-based and abstract out of something which, in reality, consists simply of spending cuts.

John Lanchester

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I believe in forgiveness; I believe in trying to work with people.

John Lewis

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Some people have questioned whether or not I can play a nice guy. Sometimes you can't win for losing.

Michael Chiklis

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'Impressionism' was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what things were or what they looked like as everybody had done before him, turned his attention to noting what took place on his own retina (as an oculist would test his own vision).

John Singer Sargent

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I am always saying, 'I don't believe in God; I believe in Al Pacino.' And that's true. If I ever get a phone call saying 'Would you like to work with Al Pacino?' I would go crazy.

Javier Bardem

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One of the biggest things I used to struggle with was about things like going on holiday. Whereas all your friends can talk about something and plan something all year long, I know that I'm probably going to be away and I'm going to miss all of it. If a job comes up, you just can't be there.

Douglas Booth

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I went downtown to the courthouse pretty late at night, and arraignment court was on. You have these prosecutors and public defenders and judges and all of these people who are there on a Friday night at half past 12, and how can you expect people to bring their judgment and their best selves to their work at that kind of time?

Clare-Hope Ashitey

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Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

Aristotle

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As a university, we're not focused on bringing about huge reforms - that's not our role.

William P. Leahy

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It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point?

Todd Rundgren

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