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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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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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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Letting men die is a money-saving device. Safety costs money… as one safety official put it, ‘When everything is hurry, hurry, hurry, when you start pressuring people and taking shortcuts, things can go wrong. And then people die.’ No. And then men die.
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Success in football is relative. If you take a job at a school that finished with a 1-9 record the year before, you're considered a good coach if you finish 5-5 in your first season. But what happens if you start with 8-2 or 9-1?
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I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!
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There were things I'd never do again, but then, they'd always seemed right.
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When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.
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I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players.
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People don't understand sarcasm, like, they take everything too seriously. People need to lighten up and go ice skating.
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Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
