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Howard Jacobson Quotes

You can imprison but you can't enslave a man who argues with his books.

Howard Jacobson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: August 25, 1942

Topics

Man You Books Who His Enslave

When I interview somebody, I look at their resume to see what they've done, who they've worked with, and how many times. If they've gotten repeat work. Those are the kinds of actors I want to hire.

Work Look Resume Done Want See

Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Leader Great Men Man Great Man Will

Getting a tattoo is arguably one of the most insane decisions a sensible human can make.

Decisions Tattoo Human Insane Most

I went to night school and summer school, I made that whole year up and I actually graduated on time. Also, I got a part-time job at the radio station.

Time Job School Night Year Summer

I don't smile a lot in my pictures. I'm always so... grim.

Michael Douglas

Smile Pictures Always Grim Lot

It blows my mind that you get Shakespeare where the 'low' comedy characters have got Northern or Welsh accents.

Mind Comedy You Low Where Get

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.

Responsibility Society New Sense

It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out.

Rocco DiSpirito

Work Space Restaurant Place Right

Democrats get credit for money coming into the state, but I do a lot of heavy lifting.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

Money Credit Coming Democrats Heavy

I've spent three hours hanging upside down while fighting off dinosaur attacks. That was a lot of fun.

Fun Upside Down Fighting Down Three

I keep a fiddle hooked up in the music - we've got a music room - and try to pick it up.

Music Try Up Room Keep Got

I have passed English medical examinations in Hong Kong... In my youth, I experienced overseas studies. The languages of the West, its literature, its political science, its customs, its mathematics, its geography, its physics and chemistry - all these I have had the chance to study.

Science Mathematics Medical Youth

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