"There can be no true friends without true enemies"

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Source : FaceBook post by Michael Dibdin from Feb 12, 2012

Michael Dibdin

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“I'm a big people pleaser; I had a very awkward adolescence. Part of me is still that person who wants everyone to like me.”

Source : Source: www.cosmopolitan.com
“Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour.”
“The Boston Celtics are not a basketball team, they are a way of life.”
“When there's an opportunity, some people pass it by. I've been lucky enough to recognise opportunities and every day, in my business, there's an opportunity somewhere - to buy, expand, design.”

Source : "British businessman". Interview with Godfrey Barker, Evening Standard's ES Magazine, December 17, 2007.
“The business is all about gush and hype. You never have a bad meeting in L.A.”
“Actually, you’re not famous at all. Maybe you’ll get some traction after you’re dead?”
“As for poetry 'belonging' in the classroom, it's like the way they taught us sex in those old hygiene classes: not performance but semiotics. If it I had taken Hygiene 71 seriously, I would have become a monk; & if I had taken college English seriously, I would have become an accountant.”

Source : Jerome Rothenberg (1981). “Pre-faces & Other Writings”, p.36, New Directions Publishing
“There's a quote I love, the full version is a bastardisation of quotes from William Hutchison Murray and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, but it's about the importance of starting things - not completing or succeeding - but beginning. It ends: "Anything you dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic and power in it. Begin it now!".”

Source : "Ask John: university advice from comedian John Robins". The Telegraph interview, www.telegraph.co.uk. August 16, 2017.

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