Hanif Kureishi Quotes

I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

Hanif Kureishi

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I only had one player in my 33 years of sports that couldn't be traded. He wore No. 23 - and 45 when he played baseball.

Jerry Reinsdorf

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When you lose a parent at ten years old, the world seems like a much scarier place. It makes complete sense to me that I took survival courses when I was a teenager and started going to war zones as a reporter. I didn't ever want to be taken advantage of, and I wanted to be able to take care of those around me.

Anderson Cooper

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You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.

Studs Terkel

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In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.

Josiah Royce

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My mom raised me to be a strong person.

Little Simz

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I don't like being treated differently.

Josh Hutcherson

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I'm not a religious person but I do like the idea of Sunday as a day set apart from the rest of the week. It's nice to have a period of reflection and have time to think about things.

Jarvis Cocker

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When 'I'm Sorry' came out and became such a huge hit, that made 'Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree' start selling. Then that became a huge, huge hit.

Brenda Lee

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I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is really, really poor! If you look at the whole history of science fiction, what people have said is going to happen, what writers have said is going to happen, and what actually happened - it's terrible.

William Gibson

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I hope one day that I'll get to make another horror film; I'd love to.

Peter Jackson

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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

Noam Chomsky

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