Eleanor Catton Quotes

An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century.

Eleanor Catton

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Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.

Jerry Saltz

HistoryArtArt HistoryEnter

I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer.

Robert Patterson

I AmComputerPlayerProgrammerHorn

To think that we have to depend on some of the most dependent people in our population to fund our government when corporations won't even pay their fair share.

Robert J. Bentley

GovernmentPeopleThinkFairDepend

The whole notion of never growing up is incredibly intense and emotional.

John Tiffany

Growing UpGrowingNeverEmotional

Bandwagons roll through our lives. It's up to you whether you jump on them unquestioningly or jump on them to overturn them and subvert them.

Riz Ahmed

YouJumpThroughUpRollOur

The Taliban, broadly speaking, are Afghans - farmers, subsistence farmers. As I say, most of those people can't find the United States on the map. Al Qaeda, traditionally, are much more educated, middle-class people, often from Egypt, from Saudi Arabia, North Africa.

Rory Stewart

PeopleFindSayEgyptMapFarmers

Biohacking could literally change the world as we know it.

Ryan Bethencourt

ChangeChange The WorldWorldKnow

I grew up with a clock radio next to my bed.

Mike D

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What's real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

Joyce Meyer

FreedomHappyWayRealBeingJust

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

Jean Anouilh

StrengthWorldChooseBeyondHuman

We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.

Chief Joseph

LeadGunsBigAwayDamagedPowder

I didn't know what I was in for when I joined 'The X Factor' - I underestimated it.

Cheryl Cole

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