Bernard Cornwell Quotes
Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it.
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I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician.
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I follow politics very closely. I read several newspapers every day.
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Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.
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I have a thousands wants; it's hard to really hone in on just a few.
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There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.
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Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why they are so powerful.
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I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that. There must be some kind of philosophical depth rendered into the language, something happening.
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I literally went down to my car and thought, 'Oh my God, SAP bought Concur - maybe tomorrow they'll buy Dairy Queen.' It was the best thing that happened to me on the day I was named CEO of Oracle.
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I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.
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Something like a quarter of the founders that have gone through Excelerate and Techstars are women. I'm incredibly proud of that.
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The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them.
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
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I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.
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Communists must use the democratic method of persuasion and education when working among the laboring people and must on no account resort to commandism or coercion. The Chinese Communist Party faithfully adheres to this Marxist-Leninist principle.
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Fighters with 13 fights are winning world titles, and of course they don't know how to behave.
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I love London in the rare parts of the year when it's quiet, and no time is more reliably quiet than the week between Christmas and New Year.
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Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was then the most powerful monarchy in the world housed its sovereigns in a converted leper hospital, yet, at the same time, parliament provided the magnificent palaces of Chelsea and Greenwich as hospitals for retired soldiers and sailors.
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I've had a long career and I want to continue to have a long career. The way to do that is not to go away.
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La tua benignità non pur soccorrea chi domanda, ma molte fïateliberamente al dimandar precorre.
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Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
