Barry Eisler Quotes
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
Karl Ove Knausgaard -
Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
Callie Thorne -
I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
Nate Berkus -
If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
Orhan Pamuk -
The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
Sally Phillips
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Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
J Allard -
Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
Waylon Jennings -
For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
Fei Fei Sun -
In the future, I want to have super-fights.
Rafael dos Anjos -
I don't know who Little Richard is.
Bar Refaeli -
History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
Walter Cronkite
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
Karen Mills -
I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
Zooey Deschanel -
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
My parents wouldn't have sent me out into the world with wool over my eyes. You have to be aware, or you'll be swallowed.
O'Shea Jackson, Jr. -
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
N. Scott Momaday -
There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
Abel Ferrara
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I think investing in a good education has been key for me, although the investment was more in time than money.
Nouriel Roubini -
You can observe a lot by watching.
Yogi Berra -
My earnestness at the injustices I witnessed when I was writing 'Random Family' may have been my gravest reportorial offense during the early years of reporting. When I discuss the book with students, they often ask me how I could 'stand by' in the face of so much suffering; the egregiousness wasn't my powerlessness but my surprise.
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc -
I try to be of the world, rather than just observing it.
Jason Molina -
Good things happen when you get your priorities straight.
Scott Caan -
I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
Barry Eisler