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“Anyway, the US, as in most issues, is the best, has the best capability to lead, and really needs to lead. It doesn't [mean] that other countries won't pick different tacks and emphasize different things. In aggregate, they're almost half of the energy R&D. Europe, China, Japan - it's very important that they come along and contribute to these things.”
“Anyway, the way political history is passed down is influenced and spoiled by the closeness of the writers to the political figures that they're writing about. It's a sad state of affairs, but there's probably more veracity of reporting in my work than there is in the newspapers.”
“Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.”
“Anyway, there is one thing I have learned and that is not to dress uncomfortably, in styles which hurt: winklepicker shoes that cripple your feet and tight pants that squash your balls. Indian clothes are better.”
“Anyway, there's something wrong with everybody and it's up to you to know what you can handle.”
“Anyway, these books I love, they’re all books by men—every last one of them. Because if it’s unseemly and possibly dangerous for a man to be angry, it’s totally unacceptable for a woman to be angry. I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.”
“Anyway, this huge Lena Dunham interview in Playboy. It felt like a shifting, of some kind. This new female archetype - this new, powerful, honest, non-pandering kind of female is becoming more powerful than whatever else has been rocking it for the past 10 years. I heard that Hugh Hefner's daughter is taking over. Which, if a woman is running Playboy, something is right.”
“Anyway, to cut off one's biological dreams seems to me the most fundamental form of psychic castration that you could imagine.”
“Anyway, we had a blast, and the movie [the Ghost Team] turned out really, really funny.”
“Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime.”
Source: Lonesome Dove: A Novel
“Anyway, what does mad mean exactly?" Rami added quickly "Aren't we all a little mad? Don't we have to be somehat mad just to go on living, to go on hoping?”
“Anyway, what is a country? When people say, "Tell me about India," I say, "Which India?.... The land of poetry and mad rebellion? The one that produces haunting music and exquisite textiles? The one that invented the caste system and celebrates the genocide of Muslims and Sikhs and the lynching of Dalits? The country of dollar billionaires? Or the one in which 800 million live on less than half-a-dollar a day? Which India?"”
“Anyway, what is the soul but a dream of itself?”
Source: A Woman Under the Surface: Poems and Prose Poems
“Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that.”
“Anyway, when I finished the book, I handed it in, didn't want to read it again, but when it finally was in print I felt like OK, I have to read this. And yeah, I thought God, this is petty, this is silly, too emotional, too raw...and maybe it was then, but now it all seems that it's so much better because all the stuff that felt petty and silly now seems more relevant because Andy was so important.”
“Anyway, when I got out of the Army, I went to see a therapist. And she said, what seems to be the trouble? And I said I want to give all my money away. And she said, how much do you have? And I said, I owe $300. She stared at me for several seconds, and she said, I see. Well, let's get to work. And maybe by the time you do have some money, you'll be wise enough to know what to do with it.”
“Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College.”
“Anyway, who lives a rich and beautiful life that I know? It's no longer possible, surely, for anyone who works for a living, or lives in a city, or shops in a supermarket, or watches TV, or reads a newspaper, or drives a car, or eats frozen pizzas. A nice life, possibly, with a huge slice of luck and a little spare cash. And maybe even a good life if... Well, let's not go into all that. But rich and beautiful lives seem to be a discontinued line.”
“Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust "Mothers of Borogravia!" and that was from the government. And if you couldn't trust the government, who could you trust? Very nearly everyone, come to think of it.”
Source: Monstrous Regiment: (Discworld Novel 31)
“Anyway, yes, telephones but not mobile phones, fish and chips still wrapped in actual newspaper and still with some kind of flavour, people visiting each other without having to consult their appointment diaries, not being able to record anything from the television; if you missed it you missed it - these were all the kinds of thing that made up the normality of the seventies.”
“Anyway, you can't leave her like that. You can't do that to the woman. She doesn't deserve it; nobody does. You don't belong to her and she doesn't belong to you, but you're both part of each other; if she got up and left now and walked away and you never saw each other again for the rest of your lives, and you lived an ordinary waking life for another fifty years, even so on your deathbed you would still know she was part of you.”
Source: The bridge
“Anyway, you know good and well it would be beyond the will of God, and the grace of the King”
“anyway. Leo said, I hope you've got your worksheet, 'cause I used mine for spit wads days ago. Why are you looking at me like that? Somebody draw on my face again?”
“Anyways...”
“Anyways, I am not very sure if anything like hypnosis or thought control would make a philosophical zombie. Trying to “program” an already-conscious person does not seem conducive to making a being like a philosophical zombie, because of the freewill in thinking that I discussed while talking about reality and anti-realities. Because a person is free to think, he or she would have to choose whether or not they should be convinced by someone, or submit to hypnosis/programming, in this case. By making this decision, a person would have to sense what they could submit to, and think about it in order to make a decision as to whether or not they should let themselves act based on some kind of programming. These actions require conscious thought, even just a few seconds of it. As of right now, I believe that creating a philosophical zombie, although possibly conceivable depending on what lexicographers and linguists do, may not be possible in real life.”
Source: The Reformation
“Anyways! I hear you used some of your hometown ingredients in your curry! Not bad! Not bad at all!"
"Y-yeah, but somehow it still doesn't feel real. I can't believe I'm in the finals! Just six months ago, I was this close to getting expelled on grades."
"Oh yeah! Back during the first day of class, right? That was the first time we were paired up together."
"This is all thanks to you, y'know. I only managed to come this far...
... because you were there for me."
"Nah. You've had the talent for it all along. You make good food. It kinda warms the heart, y'know?
I like it."
"Eheh heh heh heh...
th-thanks, Soma. I'm flattered!”
Source: 食戟のソーマ 8 [Shokugeki no Souma 8]
“Anyways, it's not like I was in the closet or anything. It's just that I didn't want my sexuality to be everyone's business. It's not like straight people have to announce their sexual preference.”
Source: The Year Shakespeare Ruined My Life
“Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got in a set-to that looked to be more about who was eyeballing whose boyfriend than who had the right to wear the same outfit that two of the ladies appeared to be wearing at the same time. Or possibly, what it was really about was who was wearing said outfit better.”
Source: Space Vacation
“Anyways, you said some really good stuff earlier, Tadokoro. That whole "think of the people you love when you cook" thing was great!"
"Aha ha ha... though it's kinda embarrassing, looking back on it. It's something I learned helping at my family's inn. If you're really going to put your heart into your cooking...
... then you should think about one person you care about a lot when you do it.
Wait a minute.
Back during the prelims...
I was thinking of-"
"Tadokoro? Something wrong? C'mon. You'll get left behind." "Oh, s-sorry! It's nothing.
...?”
Source: 食戟のソーマ 8 [Shokugeki no Souma 8]
“Anyways, I am a nerd, bookworm, geek... whatever you want to call me. I'm the type of person that would rather sit down and read a good book than go out and party.”
“Anyways, trying to express yourself to the press is often like arguing with a hysterical person.”
“Anywhere, anytime, you can communicate with God.”
“Anywhere can be a beginning or an end, or both for that matter.”
Source: Losing our Marbles?
“Anywhere can be paradise as long as you have the will to live. After all, you are alive, so you will always have the chance to be happy. As long as the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth exist, everything will be all right.”
“Anywhere everywhere! Anything anyhow! just dance!”
“Anywhere I can be with my family”
“Anywhere I can ski in the morning and sell a movie in the afternoon is good.”
“Anywhere I go, I figure I belong.”
Source: The CodeBreaker Mindset: The Unwritten Rules for Success
“Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.”
“Anywhere I hang my heart is home... it's just the closet that keeps moving.”
“Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.”
“Anywhere I'm wanted, I'll go. I've got to be wanted, though.”
“Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.”
“Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.”
“Anywhere in New York, anywhere in the country, somewhere there's going to be a Coke sign. People identify with Coke. You can write a novel about New York and people from the country will read it if they feel that you've made them familiar with New York.”
Source: Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King
“Anywhere in the world, if you see a law which is protecting the rapists, you must know that this law has been prepared by the rapists!”
“Anywhere in the world if you see a president holding his chair tightly, that man is either a thief or a tyrant, and even worse than this, he is both!”
“Anywhere in the world you go, you find racism, discrimination. Not just in the United States, or in Texas. It's very sad for me, but that's the way it is. I can't change the world by myself. I, being Hispanic, have also faced discrimination. But … the world keeps turning.”
“Anywhere in the world you hear a Chicago bluesman play, it's a Chicago sound born and bred.”
“Anywhere in the world, in every oppressive country, time sooner or later comes and libertarian people sing the same song: Goodbye Mr Dictator! This is a universal law, this is a universal song.”