Nick Hornby Quotes

One of the depressing things one realizes as one gets older is how much of one's tastes and attitudes are simply products of economic circumstance at the time.

Nick Hornby

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 17, 1957

Topics

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Apparently we love our own cell phones but we hate everyone else's.

Joe Bob Briggs

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In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.

Stephen Gardiner

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I must say that I do wrestle with the amount of money I make, but at the end of the day what am I gonna say? I took less money so Rupert Murdoch could have more?

Tom Hanks

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We are the women men warned us about.

Robin Morgan

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I kind of have a dilettantish spirit about me.

Ron Silver

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Political freedom is to be cherished indeed. But there is no political freedom that is not indissolubly bound to the inner personal freedom of the individuals who make up that nation: no liberty of a nation of conformists, no free nation made up of robots.

Rollo May

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Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

Doris Lessing

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Although a food processor is not an absolutely essential piece of equipment, because you can certainly chop, grate, slice, knead and mix everything by hand, it does do all these things very quickly and efficiently and saves you time and energy.

Delia Smith

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The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war; weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that - and who won't leave us facing a foe who thinks he doesn't.

Arthur L. Herman

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The problems I had with the Paris Opera Ballet are a thing of the past.

Sylvie Guillem

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No one benefits from us not taking credit for our successes. There is no virtue in allowing kudos to go unclaimed or elsewhere.

Tobias Lutke

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I don't know if I would compare my sound to anyone because I like to think that my music is my music.

Noah Cyrus

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