Charlie Pierce Quotes
Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched.
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Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power here, Labor was in power here, we learnt a huge amount from the ALP's experience here.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.
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I know this will blow your mind, but most people would probably never ever get it, but I listen to classical music when nobody else is around. It calms me down and I can get into this, like, deep thinking mode, you know, because there's really no lyrics to it, so you're not following something that - that you're listening to a story.
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If you want to see the real Pablo Escobar, go see a documentary.
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For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.
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I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.
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I am frequently attacked.
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In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences.
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I am an Apple guy. I got the iPhone 4 the day it came out. I have a MacBook.
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Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.
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When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain, as much more exotic than I used to.
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This is Phobos... Its mean density is known, and it is consistent with organic matter. Deimos... same story.
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It's not that I'm rebelling. It's that I'm just trying to find another way.
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My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.
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I try to run every time I'm in a new city or country - you just put your shoes on and go. It's very therapeutic, and it also works for me when I want to lose weight.
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They continued to watch each other from across the room, both frozen for a moment by the shadow of distant possibilities.
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When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.
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Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.
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Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched.
