Brad Thor Quotes
Making the best-seller list is a big deal; it's like being nominated for an Oscar. Hitting No. 1 is like actually winning the award. It's very gratifying.
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
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Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.
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I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.
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I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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I always enjoyed acting. My aunt was actually an actress.
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I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
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I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.
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My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he found out that Shamrock was in a gym in Reno, and he wanted me to go try a class with him. I tried it and fell in love the first day. Ken told me that I had potential in this sport, and he's the reason I kept at it.
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In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.
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Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.
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I've had to work by myself at combines before and forced myself to work out alone all the way back to high school. You have to be self-motivated.
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My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.
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The Kardashians can be famous for being famous. What do they do? I can't figure it out.
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When you hear 'Truth of Touch,' I believe you recognize that it is me; however it's not the typical Yanni album.
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If we get to a world of digital securities, then there isn't a need for DTC and Cede & Co. anymore. It's a really huge step in returning to clean capital markets.
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If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.
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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
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Bebop was like humming along to Mitch Miller to me.
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All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine.
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I believe I'm a born winner. I always think about winning.
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Food Stamps helped keep me from going hungry, and Pell grants helped me go to college.
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Making the best-seller list is a big deal; it's like being nominated for an Oscar. Hitting No. 1 is like actually winning the award. It's very gratifying.
