Seduced Quotes
103 quotes by 94 authors
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There's no point thinking, 'Well, my life's certainly worked out, I've got all the answers.' It would be wrong for me to say that I…
— Michael Fassbender
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I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.
— Jon Krakauer
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On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to…
— Michael Tolkin
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Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.
— George Farquhar
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I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Never be seduced into believing it isn't the role of business to tackle the big issues, because it absolutely is.
— Anita Roddick
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In this age of electronic money, investors are no longer seduced by a financial 'dance of a thousand veils.' Only hard and accurate information on…
— Lawrence Summers
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Seduced, shaggy Samson snored. She scissored short. Sorely shorn, Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed, Silently scheming, Sightlessly seeking Some savage, spectacular suicide.
— Stanislaw Lem
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And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to…
— Iain Pears
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When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a…
— Damien Hirst
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The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed…
— Gustav Mahler
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Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
— Arthur Miller
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Doing press is like eating at McDonald's: while it's going on it's vaguely enjoyable - you're seduced by your own vanity and taking yourself rather…
— Emily Mortimer
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I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will…
— Tom Stoppard
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People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them.
— Douglas Rushkoff
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A foolhardy lot, we accepted it all, as we always do, never asked: "What is going to happen to us now, with this invention of…
— Doris Lessing
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...it was so rich and exotic I was seduced into taking one bite and then another as I tried to chase the flavors back to…
— Ruth Reichl
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Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I…
— Alberto Manguel
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Still in my coat and hat, I sank onto the stair to read the letter. (I never read without making sure I am in a…
— Diane Setterfield
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina…
— Pat Conroy
Who Wrote These Seduced Quotes
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