Martin Cruz Smith Quotes

Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.

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• I've been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that process just made me realize that I have to live by what I teach my students, because I teach screenwriting at Spellman.

  

  Tananarive Due
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• TweetDeck is a very interesting client, because it presents a view that no other client in the world presents, which is this multicolumn, massive amounts of information in one pane. And people really, really enjoy that.

  

  Jack Dorsey
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• I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.

  

  G-Eazy
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• I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.

  

  Gary Hamel
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• If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.

  

  Samantha Bee
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• Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating a model for growth and sustainability that we can share with the world.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
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• On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
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• It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.

  

  Rachel Hunter
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• It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages.

  

  Francesca Lia Block
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• A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
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• I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
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• I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.

  

  Mallory Jansen
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• My spirit is as strong as ever. I'm still fighting to make the world a safer place, and you can, too.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
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• Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?

  

  Tablo
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• Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
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• It's got to be harder in real life to win a World Cup. But depending on if you play World Class level on FIFA, it's going to be difficult to win in the video game, too.

  

  Landon Donovan
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• For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

  

  Sam Abell
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• Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

  

  Larry Page
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• The gospel always comes to people in cultural robes. There is no such thing as a ‘pure’ gospel, isolated from culture

  

  David John Haskins Bauhaus
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• I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

  

  A. Scott Berg
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• All Americans should be exempt from the atrocities of Obamacare - no exception.

  

  Austin Scott

• Popular culture is most powerful when it offers us a vision of how our society should look - or at least reproduces our reality.

  

  Janet Mock
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• Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity; by greed, ambition, acts of God, invention, financial stress and strain, weather, discovery, fashion and numberless other causes impossible to be listed without omission.

  

  Gerald M. Loeb
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• Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.

  

  Martin Cruz Smith
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