Peter Carey Quotes

In about 1975-76, I lived with a woman in a little hut with some fruit trees, and I had some of the most extraordinary, happy times of my life. Apart from the horrendous Queensland police, who were corrupt and venal, it really was like living in paradise.

Peter Carey

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LifePoliceWomanHappyFruitTrees

I can't remember any of the films I've done. You go from one to another, and they all blend in to a big mass. You remember the costumes because you remember how you felt - that Western I did with Kevin Costner where I wore the big hat and the two guns, I remember that.

Michael Gambon

HatRememberYouGoDoneBig

I can't sit through dinner with somebody I don't like.

Steve Toltz

DinnerThroughSitSomebodyLike

Scientists have wonderfully explained the organization of the universe, but that's really all it claims to do, and I think it does that very successfully.

Simon Conway Morris

OrganizationThinkUniverseI Think

Being able to write creatively or read creative fiction is the best way to exercise your imagination.

Michael Pryor

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I could care less if someone is purple polka-dotted.

Michael T. Flynn

CareSomeonePurpleLessCould

I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.

Molly Sims

FoodSpeakLanguageKnowStrange

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us.

Jason Silva

TechnologyFoodFireSwordBurnUs

Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.

Jonathan Sacks

LifeScienceLanguageHolocaust

My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.

Don Drysdale

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I love 'Drake and Josh.' It's supposed to have a demographic of ages 9-14, but really, it's 9-84. There is no demographic.

Drake Bell

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You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you.

Denise Morrison

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