Harold Pinter Quotes

I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding'. Well, I have my moods like anyone else; I won't deny it.

Harold Pinter

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BeingWellAwareBeenLikeMoods

China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population.

Jo Ann Emerson

PowerBuildingNowWillOwnChina

Utopia is a framework for utopias, a place where people are at liberty to join together voluntarily to pursue and attempt to realize their own vision of the good life in the ideal community but where no one can impose his own utopian vision upon others.

Robert Nozick

LifeGoodCommunityVisionTogether

I saw the Nutcracker to be a dummy as I thought of its mouth moving like a nutcracker - and also find them pretty scary as they almost have a life of their own.

Matthew Bourne

LifeMovingThoughtMouthFindOwn

My attempt has been really to, beyond making a record of contemporary life, which is what you inevitably do, is trying to make beautiful books - books that are in some way beautiful, that are models of how to use the language, models of honest feeling, models of care.

John Updike

LifeBeautifulCareLanguageYou

The phrase 'NFL combine' always sounds redundant, because the league is a combine harvester, reaping and threshing everything in its path.

Steve Rushin

PathAlwaysEverythingNFLBecause

Beating John Landy was my defining race.

Roger Bannister

RaceDefiningBeatingJohn

In our national mythology, we seem to include only one-way migrations to the great capitol cities. The journey from the small Wisconsin town or Minnesota city to Chicago or New York or Los Angeles. Certainly for some people, that journey is a round trip.

Mona Simpson

JourneyGreatNew YorkPeopleCity

What I put in the stock market, I don't have to touch in my lifetime. I want to live off my bonds. I want to be that safe.

Monica Seles

LiveStock MarketWantTouchSafe

I've always been looking for other people's approval.

Johnny Vegas

PeopleLookingAlwaysApprovalBeen

In addition to being a terrorist recruiting tool, Guantanamo is a huge drain on taxpayer dollars.

Dianne Feinstein

RecruitingToolBeingDrainAddition

Every single national park had some component of private philanthropy.

Douglas Tompkins

SingleParkPhilanthropySomeEvery

Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents.

Clayton M. Christensen

WomenChildrenMenChurchLesson

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