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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
‐‐ Marcel Proust -
Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies.
‐‐ Mohsin Hamid -
Like many men, I am highly skilled in the art of losing things but prefer to outsource the recovery process.
‐‐ Craig Brown -
Like many men, I am not ashamed to admit that my principal joys are domestic. I love cooking, and I love looking after my children. Indeed, the times that I have with them are the only ones when I feel unconditionally happy.
‐‐ Louis de Bernieres -
Like many men who play tennis, when I hit a ball into the net, I tend to look daggers at my racket, reproaching it for playing so badly when I myself have been trying so hard.
‐‐ Craig Brown -
Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood -
Like many musicians, I don't look back much... only concentrate on what music I'm doing, and occasionally look ahead.
‐‐ Tony Levin -
Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment.
‐‐ Brendan I. Koerner -
Like many of my fellow entrepreneurs, I didn't create Hearsay Social with my co-founder Steve Garrity because it would be fun and easy, but because we're at our best when faced with enormous challenges.
‐‐ Clara Shih -
Like many of my fellow millennials, I do not consider myself categorically Republican or Democrat. More than party affiliation, I vote on based on what I believe is right, for my family and for my country. Sometimes it's a tough choice.
‐‐ Ivanka Trump -
Like many of my friends and colleagues, I can't get enough of Obama news; latest polling, speeches, visits, reaction of world leaders.
‐‐ Lucy Powell -
Like many of my friends in the Pakistani diaspora - and many of my friends in Pakistan itself, for that matter - I have sometimes looked at the country of my birth and wondered whether its future will be one of steady and sad decline.
‐‐ Mohsin Hamid -
Like many of the ideas that mattered in the American Revolution, extraterrestrials got their start in antiquity. The Greek philosopher Epicurus speculated that the universe must be infinite, eternal and abounding in 'worlds' just like our own.
‐‐ Matthew Stewart -
Like many of us in Arizona, I wasn't born here - I'm a product of the Midwest and the working class.
‐‐ Doug Ducey -
Like many of you, I've always been slightly obsessed with vampires, dating back to the prime-time series 'Dark Shadows,' which I followed avidly as a kid.
‐‐ Bill Condon -
Like many of you, I was very disappointed at the rollout of the Affordable Care Act.
‐‐ Suzan DelBene -
Like many older D.C. organizations, Common Cause has had to come a long way both in its use of the Internet and its understanding of the great value of engaging people in a broader online dialogue.
‐‐ Chellie Pingree -
Like many other banks and finance companies, Green Tree used a process called securitization to resell its home loans to outside investors. Green Tree grouped thousands of these small loans into a pool worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
‐‐ Alex Berenson -
Like many other kids, I liked watching anime.
‐‐ Takashi Murakami -
Like many other Laureates, I have benefit immeasurably from the love and support of my wife and children.
‐‐ John Pople -
Like many other people of my generation, I don't think I ever really bothered to grow up. I wasn't ever really a proper teenager until I was about 19, and maybe I got a bit stuck there, because it seemed to go on and on.
‐‐ Meg Rosoff -
Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet bursting with evolutionary possibilities, a continuing creation in which the Divine providence is manifest in every living thing. I see a science that tells us there is indeed a design to life.
‐‐ Kenneth R. Miller -
Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived. It was designed for a decade that would be just like the Nineties, except more so, in an America that enjoyed seeing itself as smarter and braver and freer than ever before.
‐‐ Rob Sheffield -
Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
‐‐ Barbara Ehrenreich -
Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school.
‐‐ Jose Andres -
Like many people, I am addicted to the physical act of reading.
‐‐ Hilary Mantel -
Like many people, I have a fascination with lies and the people who tell them. I wouldn't say I've never told a lie, but I don't think I've ever told one without both assuming I would be found out and feeling absolutely rotten about it.
‐‐ Jean Hanff Korelitz -
Like many people, I only knew of Ford Madox Ford through a book called 'The Good Soldier,' which is everybody's favorite Ford Madox Ford if they have one, but I came to read 'Parade's End' when it was suggested via Damien Timmer of Mammoth Screen.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard -
Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
‐‐ A. N. Wilson -
Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.
‐‐ Harry Browne -
Like many people out there, I'm inspired by the level of attention to detail, design and execution of Apple products.
‐‐ Ren Ng -
Like many physical diseases, anti-Semitism is highly infectious, and can become endemic in certain localities and societies. Though a disease of the mind, it is by no means confined to weak, feeble, or commonplace intellects; as history sadly records, its carriers have included men and women of otherwise powerful and subtle thoughts.
‐‐ Paul Johnson -
Like many places across the country, Wisconsin lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2008 to 2010. Unemployment during that time topped out at over 9%.
‐‐ Scott Walker -
Like many readers, I am continually in search of books that allow me to lose myself in an entirely unique universe.
‐‐ Anita Shreve -
Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
‐‐ Anita Brookner -
Like many science fiction lovers of my generation, I discovered Andre Norton on the shelves at the junior high's library.
‐‐ Sherwood Smith -
Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.
‐‐ Paul Nurse -
Like many traditional feminists, I became one of the boys, only better. For a while it gave me a buzz to win at their game, but ultimately, that kind of power just goes nowhere. Traditional feminism excludes men and so perpetuates conflict. I am not interested in warring about power.
‐‐ Scilla Elworthy -
Like many women, I stay active juggling many aspects of a very full life! I'm a busy mom. I also love to travel, garden, cook and volunteer at my kids school.
‐‐ Jane Clayson -
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
‐‐ Mary Schmich -
Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power. But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It's about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production.
‐‐ Alex Tabarrok -
Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
‐‐ Kate Atkinson -
Like many young people, I believe I have potential to make a positive impact in the world.
‐‐ Cameron Russell -
Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.
‐‐ Mitt Romney -
Like measles, the reading bug is best caught when you are young.
‐‐ John Niven -
Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard.
‐‐ Zaha Hadid -
Like millions of other Americans, I receive health insurance through my employer.
‐‐ Jeff Duncan -
Like millions of others, I have been plagued by the devastating effects of cancer hitting not one, but multiple members of my family.
‐‐ Tom DeLonge -
Like millions of Scots, I've agonised over whether to go for independence or remain with the Union.
‐‐ Rory Bremner
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