Howard Jacobson Quotes

You don't have to be in pursuit of a body beautiful to wish yourself to be the flexuously willowy creature you once were or, failing that, just to be able to pick up something you have dropped.

Howard Jacobson

Recitation: by Male by Female

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BeautifulYourselfWishYouBodyUp

I can't learn in school, but I can learn from somebody who I think is cool and great.

Jimmy Iovine

GreatSchoolCoolThinkLearnI Can

You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way.

Robert Rodriguez

ProblemsCareTake CareYouCreate

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

Max Cannon

PeopleSocietyBeyondBehaveGoing

In Tennessee, you can live off fast food. It's everywhere... But it's nowhere in San Francisco, and I didn't know how to navigate the city to eat.

Matt Cain

LiveFoodCityYouFastKnow

We just don't need any more 'Macbeth's in the world, however brilliant mine might turn out to be.

John Tiffany

WorldBrilliantMoreNeedTurnOut

You go into battle with your strengths.

Anand Mahindra

BattleYouGoStrengthsYour

If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

DiscoveryYearsNormalCancerGenes

I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part.

Tom Wopat

ThinkNowSeriouslyMorePureBeing

Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.

Rita Mae Brown

DivorceTragedyHumanEverything

Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they've generally achieved what they wanted, and they're more settled.

Rod Stewart

WomenGoMoreChangesThroughAfter

I've always wanted to invest. That's why I started working on Wall Street in the first place, back in 1986 when I went through the Salomon Brothers training program.

Mary Meeker

TrainingBackWallPlaceStreetWhy

I think that being a Wildling is essentially about surviving the cold, and in that department, the extras on our shoot excelled and needed no help from us.

Miguel Sapochnik

ColdThinkHelpSurvivingShootUs

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