Howard Jacobson Quotes

I am enthralled until the last ball Djokovic hits, and the moment it is over and he is on his knees eating grass, I sink into my chair, cannot believe I have spent another fleeting fortnight of the few summers I have left caring about the outcome of contests I will have forgotten in the blink of an eye, and begin to question my sanity.

Howard Jacobson

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If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', who isn't going to be affected by that? But you have to tell yourself not to value that. You have to tell yourself - or at least I do - to not become accustomed to hearing applause in any way, because I think that's dangerous.

Joaquin Phoenix

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I think any writer keeps going back to some basic theme. Sometimes it's autobiographical. I guess it usually is.

Joe Haldeman

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When the blood of thousands of Americans is shed, the impact lingers. For a generation after the Civil War, the Republican injunction to 'vote as you shot' kept the party dominant for decades; from 1868 to 1912, only one Democrat - Grover Cleveland - won the White House.

Jeff Greenfield

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I see courage everywhere I go in Africa.

John Prendergast

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You don't write a book to show off.

Tony Orlando

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I wouldn't say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it.

Michael Phelps

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I think corporations and people are very different. People make corporations whatever it is that they're going to be.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

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In my mind, I've always checked out in 2037; that's always been my expiration date. I'll be 75.

Douglas Coupland

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The beautiful thing about 'The Strain Trilogy' is the ability to move from gore to high fable to creeping dread to domestic drama to unbearable suspense to the uncanny and on and on. The epic journey is designed to support these swings in mood, and that complements my tastes, which are wide-ranging.

Chuck Hogan

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Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

William Wordsworth

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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Pearl S. Buck

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Memorial bracelets memorializing prisoners of war, missing in action, killed in action, and those who died of wounds or injuries sustained in a combat theater are authorized.

James F. Amos

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