"If you want something badly enough, you make……" — Hanif Kureishi
"If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses."
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49 Quotes by Hanif Kureishi
Hanif Kureishi has 49 quotes on this site.
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Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work,…
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All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits,…
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I can't sleep with you tonight, baby, my head's all messed up, you've no idea. It's somewhere else and it's…
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Dear God, teach me to be careless.
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Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They’ll sit on anyone’s knee.
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Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband.…
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Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want,…
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England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded,…
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Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.
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And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.
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Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a…
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I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.
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More Arrangements Quotes
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The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just…
— Erykah Badu
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We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a…
— Annie Besant
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There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra…
— Jello Biafra
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There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students…
— Anne Campbell
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If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values…
— Thomas Cochrane
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The doctrine of evolution implies the passage from the most organised to the least organised, or, in other terms, from…
— John Hughlings Jackson
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By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his…
— Sun Tzu
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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself…
— Milton Friedman
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Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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