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Nick Harkaway Quotes

The market, as we're all painfully aware in the aftermath of the banking crisis, can be an idiot. It has no perception of right or wrong, or even sensible or insane. It sees profit.

Nick Harkaway

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: 1972

Topics

Perception Idiot Wrong Profit Crisis

I don't want football to not be played, but I would like the sophistication brought forth to take care of those who need to be taken care of and to take the precaution, at the sacrifice of winning, to take care of people.

Jim Brown

Football Sacrifice People Winning

I've learned to be one of the hardheadedest cats in the world. I've learned that.

Jerry Lee Lewis

Cats World Learned

What the establishment was trying to do was to position me as a Republican running in the Democratic primary.

John Delaney

Me Trying Republican Position

I have a Viking stove. The color is butter lemon, and I had to wait several months for it, because that color wasn't available and I really wanted butter lemon! But I don't know that it's seriously ever been cooked on. I mean, I make tea every morning. Does that count?

Andy Cohen

Morning Tea Wait Color Know Mean

The people I choose as models have a quality that seems to contain the past, the present, and the future all at once. It's hard to explain. I can look at 100 people in a room but only find it in one person.

Amy Sherald

Future Quality Past People Present

Football players should always remember there's a whole lot more to life.

Steve Largent

Life Football Remember More Always

I took a psychology class, and I think the study of the mind can help me further my acting ability. It's also taught me about getting into an environment with new people and acting like you've known them forever.

Sierra McCormick

People Mind Me Think Help Acting

We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of.

Rush D. Holt, Jr.

Knowledge Science Know Politicians

I remember plastering the kitchen with Black Power pictures of Angela Davis.

Mary Beard

Power Kitchen Black Remember Angela

Oddly enough, government policy helped get the fast food outlets into the city. Very well-intentioned small business administration loans to encourage minority business ownership. The easiest business to get into is opening a fast-food franchise in the inner city.

Michael Pollan

Business Food Government City Small

Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.

Liv Ullmann

Spirit Birth Universal Norwegian

Build a rocket ship and leave the earth!

Jon Heder

Ship Earth Build Leave Rocket