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Geoff Dyer Quotes

In many ways, I was a typical young guy out of college. I was at Oxford, where every night there'd be a late showing of some great film.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: June 5, 1958

Topics

Great College Night Late Young Out

One of the key qualities a leader must possess is the ability to detach from the chaos, mayhem, and emotions in a situation and make good, clear decisions based on what is actually happening.

Good Leader Chaos Key Decisions

If you're saying the same line 10 times and making it look like you just came up with it, that's acting.

Saying You Look Acting Same Line

Further, science is a collaborative effort.

Science Effort Further Collaborative

It would be nice to be in one place for a while and have a social life again and get a job. But I'm not qualified to do anything. That's the problem.

Life Job Problem Place Be Nice Nice

As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other people have feelings is not just an academic exercise but an all-too-common vice, as we see in the long history of human cruelty.

Power History People Me Believe

I was waiting for a train at Waverley Station in Edinburgh. My knee was hurting, so I asked a young man for his seat. He replied, 'There's one over there'. I said, 'Please', and when he refused I poured my water over him.

Miriam Margolyes

Water Man Waiting Train Said Young

When I'm up on stage, I'm thinking more about my fans and about myself as a singer and an artist. When I'm at home being a daddy, the last thing I'm thinking about is being an artist. It is two things that I never really put together.

Home Myself Together Thinking Artist

I think every artist wants to have that 'Grammy award winner' tag in front of their name.

Think Name Winner Award Artist Tag

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

William Shakespeare

Good Men Evil Bones Them After

If you hear somebody say something absolutely horrendous about their own life, in quite a flippant, offbeat kind of way, when you meet people clearly trying to be strong and brave, the ones who are really good at it are the ones who break my heart the most.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Life Good Heart Be Strong People

I identify with the 99 per cent.

Identify Cent Per

I am not a wolf in sheep's clothing, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.

I Am Wolf Sheep Clothing Am

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