John Lanchester Quotes

In a democracy, people tend to get the kind of government they deserve.

John Lanchester

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I think right now the way society's going, I think role models are important, and kids need direction. If I didn't have that direction growing up, who knows what I could be doing, because I've been lost many times in my life, and I've had to have someone guide me back on the right path.

Jeremy Lin

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I'll stand with President Trump and get tough on illegal immigration.

Matt Rosendale

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The seed of an idea laying dormant in an old sketchbook is fed the missing ingredient from a new experience. Trying to share some of these experiences, some of the wonders, is one of the reasons why I do books.

Michael Foreman

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What happened to the Bush Administration regarding terrorism is that they regarded it as a secondary issue, and associated with Clinton. One of those Clinton issues.

Sidney Blumenthal

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I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.

Liz Phair

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Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure.

Jared Diamond

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Mum had a job fitting upholstery into cars, but, in the evenings, she worked as a seamstress.

Bruno Tonioli

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Surround yourself with good people; surround yourself with positivity and people who are going to challenge you to make you better.

Ali Krieger

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Of course you bank on your experience, but as a sounding board. It isn't that you write down what happens to you every day. You wouldn't be a writer if you did that.

Philip Roth

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Sometimes, I feel like directors look at me and say, 'I want to put that boy in the jungle. I want to hurt him.'

Powers Boothe

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The first of the four noble truths of Buddhism, that there is suffering in life, was enormously important to me. No one had ever said it out loud. That had been my experience, of course, but no one had ever talked about it. I didn't know what to do with all the fear and emotions within, and here was the Buddha saying this truth right out loud.

Sharon Salzberg

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I don't talk, I quote. I can't help it. It's better to be quotable than honest.

Sebastian Horsley

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