Bernard Cornwell Quotes
All gunners were deaf, they said. They were the kings of the battlefield and they never heard the applause.
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I'm an atheist and a humanist, so I have no desire to evangelize anyone.
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No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.
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You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
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If anyone tells you it's impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can just get in line behind you - and kiss your math.
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I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anything like that, but it's something I'd like to try.
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My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.
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Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.
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The more and more I got into writing, the harder and harder it became for me. I still love it, but it became much more problematic than I thought it would be.
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And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.
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As is known, the sugar molecule as it passes through lactic acid can easily be split by purely chemical means.
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Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgments; … But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.
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Today you have this horrible alliance between the far left and the Islamists and they’re using the modern media tool to shut people like me out by smearing us.'
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I'm a storyteller... I haves a God-given gift that I can share with you and perhaps entertain you and bring you along for the ride... So when anybody tries to take that away from me, or impede that, I get defensive.
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We all know the wonders of Skype, but there's nothing like getting a hug from your daughters or taking them to school.
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My biggest disappointment is that once I'm finished working on the characters, I really do expect to see them in the flesh one day.
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Visibility is dangerous because if a guy cuts you off in traffic, you can't call him a name - it might get to the press.
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Prediction of the fall of Russian communism: 'Russia enveloped with communism-a new religious freedom must come. God will overrule it, for that people must hear the truth, and truth in simplicity. Truly there is much for the church to do in the coming century.'
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I found so much fun in the light shows and the multimedia shows of the hippies. That was when I was a student in the 1960s, and I was in New York, so I learned how to deal with writing, recording sound of other people, performance art - because that was a new territory, and I liked everything that was new and provocative. That interested me more than becoming anything specific.
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The more you're real with people, and the more you let people help you, the more they get to understand how you operate as an entrepreneur. The stronger that relationship is, then the more likely there's a future together in that relationship.
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It is more important to have self-respect than to gain respect from others.
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I wasn't playing Nixon's satirical stick figure. I was playing Nixon the man. As an actor, I felt I had to get to the deeply flawed humanity of the guy.
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All gunners were deaf, they said. They were the kings of the battlefield and they never heard the applause.
