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Kingsley Amis Quotes

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: April 22, 1922 - October 22, 1995

Topics

Journalism Laziness Become Chief

If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?

Speak You Now Matter Matters Out

It's nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren't the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with.

Me Nice Butt Get Finally His

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.

Sports Time Light Myself Skiing Get

People are tough. We're evolved for less food; more exercise; less sleep; less security; more paranoia. The irony is that we're so good at what we do. We strive for more food; less exercise; more sleep; more security; less paranoia - and we've succeeded.

Good Food Sleep People Tough Strive

I don't typically work that late into the night in a studio, I'm more productive during the day.

Work Day Night Late More Productive

No, the horror genre is not my first love. I don't run to the theater to see horror films.

Amanda Righetti

Love Run Horror First See Genre

I don't always feel fierce and fearless, but I do feel like I'm a rock star at being human.

Tracee Ellis Ross

Fearless Fierce Feel Rock Star Rock

I try to keep it real simple. I try not to add a lot of frosting on what I'm doing. Just take the swing and don't muscle the swing, because if you get in the hitting position and you take the swing, I generate a lot more bat speed, and that works for me.

Simple Me Doing Speed You Swing

Anything that's living is a machine. I'm a machine; my children are machines. I can step back and see them as being a bag of skin full of biomolecules that are interacting according to some laws.

Children Step Bag Back I Can Skin

Some sports, you see some athletes just walking around the gym not really doing anything, eating food. They're first to the lunchroom, never lifting weights.

Mikaela Shiffrin

Sports Food Eating Walking Doing

Every man thinks god is on his side.

God Man Side Thinks Every Man Every

Goldman Sachs believes that economically empowering women globally is one of the best investments to grow economies, create jobs, and build more prosperous societies.

Women Best Grow Create Build More

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