Lawrence Wright Quotes

When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me.

Lawrence Wright

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 2, 1947

Topics

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What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?

Angela Carter

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I'm not coping very well with all the attention, if I'm honest.

Sienna Miller

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It makes us feel better that everyone out there is thinking of Maurice.

Robin Gibb

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One way of paying tribute to my parents was 'bearing witness' as the Quakers do - writing down everything that was happening instead of turning my back on it and pretending that it was all great.

Roz Chast

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Public trust is essential to public safety.

Martin O'Malley

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I think Trump is terrible for comedy. A lot of people say he is great. He's not. You can't joke a joke.

Michelle Wolf

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It's fun to play the type of people you dislike.

Jason Sudeikis

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I don't get why people love to hate John Cena. But as long as he gets a reaction that's positive or negative, he's doing his job.

CM Punk

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In the eye, there is a type of junk that accumulates in the back of the retina that eventually causes us to go blind. It's called age-related macular degeneration.

Aubrey de Grey

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If you're making music, you must want to turn other people on to it, whether you're number one in the charts or number 60. I don't know, that's a commercial thing, but just the fact that other people like you... there's no point in making music, otherwise. Otherwise, you might as well make it in your bedroom and leave it there.

Paul Weller

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The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God.

Seth Shostak

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For many years I thought I was bisexual. And then I would ask myself, 'What is bisexual? Does that even exist?'

Ricky Martin

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