Terry Pratchett Quotes

'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.

Terry Pratchett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015

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Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. It's just a great song. I bought it in a brown, paper bag because I didn't want anyone to know I had it.

Joe Elliott

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I remember when Meryl Streep did an ad for American Express, the press harassed her.

Andie MacDowell

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Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don't have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.

Jeff Bezos

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No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.

Steve Prefontaine

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Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.

Tom Robbins

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Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

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Shirley MacLaine said, You're so funny, then gave me a hug. Everything went white. I couldn't hear, I couldn't see. I thought I was going to pass out.

Lisa Kudrow

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I have always been a martial arts fighter; it goes to back when I was eighteen. I was competing on the circuit, but when you're performing, you tend to pull punches because you don't want to hurt anyone.

Jason David Frank

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It is a Polynesian thing where you are calm and relaxed in your approach to life. But, when you're in the ring, you really go for it.

Joseph Parker

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The sweetest two words are 'next time.' The sourest word is 'if.'

Chi Chi Rodriguez

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There is a lot going on with negotiations in the football business, and I appreciate some people think that it's a crazy, absurd amount of money.

Alisson

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We've evolved over millions of years to sense the world around us. We use our five natural senses to perceive information. But the huge amount of information mankind has accumulated and stored online cannot be perceived by these senses.

Pranav Mistry

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