C. J. Cherryh Quotes

People ask where writers get ideas.Take my advice. Some cool, clear night, drive to a country place where city lights don’t block your view. Turn off the car lights. Get out and look up. And see our real neighborhood.

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• The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.

  

  Dan Pink
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• I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.

  

  Beau Willimon
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• I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
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• There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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• I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.

  

  Jack Kelley
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• If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
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• Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
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• My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.

  

  Felicia Day
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• I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.

  

  Ion Tiriac
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• Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
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• I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.

  

  Jack Lemmon
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• Everyone else in the 'iCarly' cast can operate on 5 hours of sleep, but not so for 'Old Man Nathan!'

  

  Nathan Kress
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• It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.

  

  Patrick Stewart
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• People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.

  

  Cameron Crowe
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• I do not like being famous. I like being normal.

  

  Vince Gill
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• Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.

  

  Abraham Verghese
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• Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?

  

  Yeardley Smith
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• I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
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• I farm taro. I have eight varieties of taro, which is a staple of the Hawaiian people from about 2,000 years ago, and sweet potatoes, and it's a sustainable living, agriculture, off the grid.

  

  Jason Scott Lee
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• 'Do you need transportation? Tools? Stuff?''Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs. We have a protractor.''Okay, I’ll go home and see if I can scrounge up a ruler and a piece of string.''That’d be great.'

  

  Neal Stephenson
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• Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.

  

  Parker Stevenson
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• We are not a postwar generation, but a pre-peace generation. Jesus is coming.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
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• People ask where writers get ideas.Take my advice. Some cool, clear night, drive to a country place where city lights don’t block your view. Turn off the car lights. Get out and look up. And see our real neighborhood.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
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