Anita Brookner Quotes

I was brought up to look after my parents. My family were Polish Jews, and we lived with my grandmother, with uncles and aunts and cousins all around, and I thought everybody lived like that.

Anita Brookner

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FamilyParentsThoughtLookCousins

I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically be a black swan event that is completely unlike whatever you've experienced before. It even happens to Google!

Matt Mullenweg

BlackThinkYouWillMatterGoogle

I wasn't very ambitious. I really wanted to get married.

Amanda Eliasch

GetAmbitiousWantedGet Married

People who listen to NPR are forever thanking the hosts for 'sharing,' or 'initiating a dialogue,' or 'taking the time to explain this very important issue.'

Tucker Carlson

TimePeopleImportantSharingListen

If you watch the history of baseball, teams come back, and sometimes they could have come back, but they give in or give up.

Tony La Russa

HistoryBaseballYouBackSometimes

I'm not particularly tall, strong, fast, or aggressive.

Robert Downey, Jr.

StrongFastAggressiveTall

Believe me, there's nothing I would like to do more than disappear for a while.

Ronda Rousey

MeBelieveNothingMoreDisappear

Eating good food is, to me, one of life's greatest joys, and I will never punish myself for it.

Miriam Shor

LifeGoodMyselfFoodGood FoodMe

America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance.

Mohamed El-Erian

StrengthBetterAmericaCountryNeed

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

Lord Byron

LifeBestManDrunkMustGet

The English may love gardening and fishing, but they have never struck me as being close to nature. Their way of expression is 'the hollyhocks are awfully good' sort of thing, all done in very good taste. The savagery of nature is something they don't dwell upon.

Denholm Elliott

NatureLoveGoodFishingGardening

With DNS, it's possible to control key components of Internet navigation. Google already controls search, they are quickly gaining market share to control the browser, and when you put in DNS, it becomes the trifecta of complete navigational control.

David Ulevitch

ControlKeySearchInternetYou

I'm basically a gift-giver.

Christie Hefner

Basically

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