Brad Anderson Quotes
I'm drawn to a story partly based on the fact that it's something I might not be as familiar with.
Quotes to Explore
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In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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Orange blossom water would make a magical addition to your store cupboard.
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Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.
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No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.
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I certainly didn't have a nanny.
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It's better to be honest about your opinions than to pretend you don't have them.
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The constant in all the businesses I've become a part of is taking what I do and making it real for everyone. I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
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You have to respect your opponent.
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When I eat biscuits, I also eat grits.
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It is not a disaster to discover that you are not the person you assumed you were. To the contrary, it is the beginning of the end of disaster. Experiment: How you feel if you were neither a success or failure in life? How would you feel if you were neither popular nor unwanted?
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We see what we have always seen. If it seems, it is.
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The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.
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India is among the leaders in thinking about how technology can solve some of the problems about financial inclusion. But if you think that financial inclusion as a problem has a solution rooted in technology, it's obviously not the only thing.
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The first information I consume in the morning is probably 'The New York Times' and then my Twitter feed. I think Twitter is a really fascinating, easy way to stay on top of what stories are out there.
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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism, let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than, quite simply, to be at all times caught in the dominant forms of the moment.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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I'm drawn to a story partly based on the fact that it's something I might not be as familiar with.
