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Nick Harkaway Quotes

In ancient Greece, Socrates reportedly didn't fancy a literate society. He felt that people would lose the capacity to think for themselves, simply adopting the perspective of a handy written opinion, and that they would cease to remember what could be written down.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: 1972

Topics

Perspective People Opinion Society

You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

Feel You Numbers Mathematician

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

Freedom Silence Criticism

I jumped between two seven-story buildings in Los Angeles, launching from one rooftop to the other with ramps.

Buildings Los Angeles Two Between

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Passion Art Television Moral Without

I grew up on a set and saw my family doing it and thought, 'I can do that too.'

Family Thought Doing I Can Up Saw

Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.

Mignon McLaughlin

Child Proud You Will Most Least

It's a gamble. A band like Kiss, a lot of those are our audience but we don't do as much make-up. Alice would have more to lose if we got back together.

Michael Owen Bruce

Together Kiss Lose Back More Band

I don't know what 'Mad Men' has done for my fan base. I didn't know that I still had a fan base, to be honest.

Jay R. Ferguson

Men Mad Know Done Honest Fan

I grew up singing in church as a little boy.

Singing Church Boy Up Little Grew

Whereas in the past people have seen the two sexes as almost incomprehensibly different, now there is a group of people that are explaining the connections between both the genders, literally in the way their biology informs some of their expression.

Past People Connections Biology Way

Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

William Scranton

Morning Day Strong Giving Finding

I don't feel like a grandmother. I don't.

Priscilla Presley

Feel Grandmother Like

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