Don Marquis Quotes
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
Bear Grylls -
I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.
Tamsin Greig -
We were descended from royalty.
Natalie Wood -
I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
Xun Kuang -
I haven't actually studied acting at all.
Kat Dennings -
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
Hans Selye
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
Dan Gilbert -
The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
Harrison Ford -
I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
Iain Banks -
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
Randy Pausch -
Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.
Ted Dekker
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
Sadie Jones -
You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.
Tammy Faye Bakker -
If I could do what Hilary Mantel does, I would probably do that. She is more intelligent and a better researcher and knows more what she's about than I do.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
I interned for the Knicks for one year doing community relations, but I absolutely hated it. It was a desk job, and the team was not good at all, and I didn't realize how much that correlated to the office. It was just gray, gloomy days.
Ramon Rodriguez -
After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
Pamela Stephenson -
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
Lao Tzu
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We have to believe it enough that it changes how we live.
Francis Chan -
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.
Abraham Lincoln -
Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
Walt Mossberg -
Jean [Kennedy Smith, JFK's sister] told me she thinks the whole sports angle has been overplayed, that politics was central to him. This nonsense that he only went into politics because his older brother Joe was killed is not true. He was determined he was going to be in politics, but he would have waited his turn.
Chris Matthews -
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Don Marquis