Scarlett Thomas Quotes

I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

Scarlett Thomas

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I like fish, and I also like bear's paws. If I cannot have the two together, I will let the fish go, and take the bear's paws. So, I like life, and I also like righteousness. If I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go, and choose righteousness.

Mencius

LifeTogetherFishChooseGoWill

I'm a happy and productive person. I'm very fortunate; I was born with happy genes. I've got a lot of energy.

Stanley Hauerwas

HappyEnergyBornPersonGenesGot

Every bit of money that we can bring from our federal transportation budget in Washington back here to Stewart Airport will benefit our local economy and our local residents.

Sue Kelly

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Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

Simone Weil

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Obviously, you have to find the confidence within yourself to pursue your ideas, but there's nothing wrong with having people around you who are going to say, 'I think that's a great idea,' or, 'I think you're doing the right thing.'

Joy Mangano

ConfidenceGreatYourselfIdeasYou

There's this idea of America that some people have to win and some have to lose, so certain things are in place to make this happen. Some people have to be the next legislators and political elites, and some have to fill the prisons and work in McDonald's. That's how America works. It's a machine which needs people up top and people down low.

Jaylen Brown

WorkPeopleWinPoliticalAmerica

Being a heart throb would be crazy.

Josh Hutcherson

HeartCrazyBeingWould

I have very diverse tastes in music, and I don't, like, make distinctions between what I can't and can't listen to. In fact, I could never understand why anybody would do that in the first place. My attitude is, 'I can't make music if I don't like music.'

Corey Taylor

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Find a place where you add value to a community.

Anthony Foxx

CommunityValueYouFindPlaceAdd

I played soccer for 12 years on three different teams at a time.

Portia Doubleday

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I think my worst habit is struggling with technology, even though I know how this stuff works, I need to bring conscious thought into how I use.

Nir Eyal

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Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.

Richard Dooling

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