William Boyd Quotes

Even though I've been an avid consumer of contemporary music since my early teens, the world of rock music has always been at something of a distance - I listen to it, read about it, I talk about it, but I've had little or no contact with its denizens.

William Boyd

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I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.

Joe Eszterhas

GodBondMy OwnHeadOwnReligious

When I was little, I wanted to be a doctor. I was really interested in gore. My grandfather was an orthopedic surgeon and he had a lot of books in his library that I would just pore over. A lot of them had really horrible pictures of deformities.

Jennifer Egan

DoctorLibraryPicturesGrandfather

No matter how excluded you have become from Christmas, it is a genuinely inclusive matter; frankly, you are conscripted into it.

Robert Rinder

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John Boehner is the ultimate Beltway hack, a man whose unmatched and self-serving skill at political survival has made him, after two decades in Washington, the hairy blue mold on the American congressional sandwich.

Matt Taibbi

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I am a pet person. My dog actually lives in Georgia now. But I work with animal trainers and pets quite often. I also volunteer at different places like animal shelters. It's good to be around pets. They kind of put things into perspective. They're easygoing, loyal, and they seem to get it, even when humans don't.

Alyson Stoner

WorkDogGoodPerspectivePetI Am

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

Soichiro Honda

WorkSuccessFailureResultsYour

Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage to the choice, but because there is an advantage to everyone making the same choice.

Steven Pinker

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It was a very strange time in the late 1950s/early 1960s, when people were putting things in space, but that language of spacecraft hadn't really congealed yet. A lot of artists at that time were looking at them as aesthetic objects.

Trevor Paglen

TimeSpacePeopleLookingLanguage

I've never taken vocal lessons. My early trumpet training and a fortunate talent for singing has always been enough for me. In the case of rock singing, I've always felt it was better to remain a bit untrained to maintain your individuality.

Ronnie James Dio

TrainingTalentMeSingingBetter

We will not allow our country ever to be at the mercy of commodity price volatility or external markets.

Mohammad bin Salman

CountryPriceMercyWillVolatility

Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice.

Brian Keene

New ThingsVoiceUniqueFindNew

Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don't have food - that's not news. This is grave. We can't rest easy while things are this way.

Pope Francis

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