Jonathan Lethem Quotes

I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid.

Jonathan Lethem

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 19, 1964

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Too many entrepreneurs think their valuation is the real economic price of their company. It's not. It's not a real economic price unless you are selling 100%.

Andy Dunn

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You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

John Coltrane

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Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.

John McCarthy

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In all religions, we hear of the Seven Planetary Genii: the Hindu tells of Seven Rishi, the Parsi of Seven Ameskaspentas, the Mohammedan of Seven Archangels, and our Christian religion has its Seven Spirits before the Throne.

Max Heindel

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Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.

John Pilger

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I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

Tom Wesselmann

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We borrow 40 cents out of every dollar that we spend. We borrow most of it from countries like China. They have become major creditors of the United States and have more power over our economy than we want them to. So dealing with this is not only the right thing economically, it's certainly right from a moral viewpoint.

Dick Durbin

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If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work.

Christy Mathewson

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My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.

Brigitte Bardot

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Obey the principles without being bound by them.

Bruce Lee

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I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.

Placido Domingo

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Obama represents one-world government, a.k.a. Neocolonialism. Presidents don't change anything locally - they only deal with foreign policy.

Prodigy

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