Mark Helprin Quotes

The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.

Mark Helprin

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'The Daily Show' was amazing because I learned so much.

Jessica Williams

DailyAmazingBecauseShowMuch

King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

AloneHeroKingConstructionAction

I don't want a performance to give me everything. You can look at Charlotte Rampling in '45 Years,' and you don't really know what she's thinking, but you know something interesting is happening.

Andrew Haigh

MePerformanceThinkingInteresting

When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos and for a long time that is what I wanted to do. Later when I was a teenager I had a fantastic English teacher called Mrs. Stafford. Her enthusiasm made me decide to be a writer.

Melvin Burgess

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Until I see an Arab country, a Muslim country, with a democracy, I won't understand how anyone can have a problem with how they're treated.

John Lydon

DemocracyProblemCountryUnderstand

You can't focus on other people's careers. Everybody is different.

Andy Murray

FocusPeopleYouDifferentEverybody

I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.

Mary J. Blige

GodMeWinStoryWin Or LoseChoose

You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I practically failed chemistry, and if I had to write a book in any of those areas, I don't think it would go well.

Mary Roach

MeWritingBookThinkYouPhysics

We stand for getting government out of the way, letting people make good decisions for themselves, in education, returning power to school boards and to teachers and to parents so they can educate the children.

Mike Pompeo

EducationGoodPowerChildrenSchool

Let me just tell you this: I love polyester.

Jay R. Ferguson

LoveMeYouTellJustI Love

Even companies that do big business online struggle to be noticed by Google users. The Web, after all, is home to some 120 million Internet domains and tens of billions of indexed pages. But every company, big or small, can draw more Google traffic by using search-engine optimization - SEO, for short.

Jason Fried

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I've not really watched too many English films. I've grown up watching Indian cinema, mostly.

Deepika Padukone

CinemaWatchingUpEnglishManyToo

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