Omar Amanat Quotes
There is a big difference between using V.C. money that you blow and spending your own personal money.
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The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
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I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.
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Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.
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If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.
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The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
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The magic of creation has always fascinated me.
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My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids were asleep.
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Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
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I don't actually have problems dealing with corporate situations. There are times I've railed against it, but there are other times when I'm like, 'I'll take your money, no problem.'
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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There is a big difference between using V.C. money that you blow and spending your own personal money.
