Hanif Kureishi Quotes

'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.

Hanif Kureishi

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LoveChildrenWomanHusbandStory

I like to create a community where people want to come and have a good time and do their best work.

Jill Soloway

WorkGoodCommunityTimeBestWant

People are getting patents on things that are too general.

Jerry Yang

PeopleThingsGeneralTooGetting

Sound quality was supposed to be one of the big selling points for CDs but, as we know, it wasn't very good at all. It was just another con, a get-rich-quick scheme, a monumental hoax perpetrated on the music consuming public.

John Mellencamp

GoodMusicQualitySellingKnowBig

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

Matt Damon

PlayNeverPianoAgainSongsSome

Men are hugely significant to me and to many of the women I interview.

Amanda de Cadenet

WomenMenMeInterviewSignificant

I was the classic liberal, left-wing, 'Theater is going to change the world' kind of person. You know, very, very boring.

Stephen Moyer

ChangeChange The WorldWorldYou

If you were to do a line-up of past suitors, it's definitely a very eclectic group, is all I'll say.

Sophia Myles

PastYouSayGroupVeryEclectic

Smoke 'em if you got 'em.

Tre Cool

YouSmokeGot

Mr. Speaker, the Delaware River deepening project is important for my constituents, for our region and for the entire nation. I trust that, when they examine the facts about it, every one of my colleagues will join me in supporting it.

Robert Brady

TrustRiverMeColleaguesFacts

Like a majority of Americans in recent years, I came to understand that fear of homosexuality was leading our governments - including the one I ran as Governor of Mississippi - to deny the equal rights to an entire segment of our population that are afforded all of us under the Constitution.

Ronnie Musgrove

FearConstitutionUnderstandEqual

At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.

Michel Gondry

FunnySchoolShyVeryReally

It can get really messy inside my head, and it's usually just because everybody can get really self-centered at some point. And so what usually keeps me from quitting is that my reasons for quitting are just lame. I wouldn't want anybody else to talk to myself the way that I talk to myself.

Brie Larson

MyselfMeJust BecauseWantWay

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