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Christopher Koch Quotes

I don't believe novels should carry an obvious message. I don't want to write characters you can immediately say are good or bad; as in life, most people are a mixture.

Christopher Koch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: australian
Birth: July 16, 1932 - September 23, 2013

Topics

Life Good People Believe You Bad

NASCAR is Freaky Fast, just like Jimmy John's.

Jimmy John Liautaud

Fast Freaky NASCAR Just Like John

When the oldest surviving record company goes all in on a conductor, everyone notices.

Andris Nelsons

Company Everyone Surviving Goes

I don't think I've had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That gives me great freedom as a fiction writer. Nothing that happened holds any special tyranny over me.

John Irving

Life Freedom Great Me Think Feel

The deep learning techniques, while relatively easy to learn, are quite foreign to traditional engineering modalities. It takes a different mindset and a relaxation of the presumption of control. The practitioners are like magi, sequestered from the rest of a typical engineering process.

Steve Jurvetson

Learning Control Rest Deep Mindset

I'm never going to sing the words, 'I want to shut down the club,' never, ever.

Sia

Words Down Want Never Club Going

I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them.

Tom Lehrer

Song Problem Want Write Out Would

Since the first large Zika outbreak ever recognized, in 2007, the CDC has had boots on the ground responding. Our laboratories have developed a test that can confirm Zika in the first week of illness or in a sample from an affected child.

Tom Frieden

Child Boots Week Test First Ground

I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.

Roger Federer

Sports You Know Said Sometimes Way

Women like men who listen. We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen twice as much as we speak.

Josh Bowman

Women Men Speak Mouth Listen Two

Spidey was the one comic I read consistently throughout my childhood. As someone who grew up a nerd, scrawny, and picked on in high school, I related very strongly to Peter Parker.

Josh Keaton

Childhood School High School Someone

Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child.

Craig Ferguson

Time Child Moon American Long Saw

The question of what actually caused the Civil War is secondary to the result of the Civil War, which is that after the war was over, slavery was ended, and the North and the South reconciled. And I think we need to respect that.

Corey Stewart

Respect War Slavery Think Result