James Dickey Quotes
He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.
James Dickey
Quotes to Explore
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.
Aaron Sorkin
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Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.
Valerie Plame
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I keep wondering at night, 'Will I have a bank the next morning, or will some technology company be doing banking without needing a bank?'
Uday Kotak
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Karl Kraus
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You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a painter, you squeeze them out on to a canvas.
Feist
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Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.
Rachel Kushner
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He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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'I cannot define failure because I don't believe in failure. There is no failure in my book. All I see is success, directed by the Spirit of God.'
T. B. Joshua
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Does not all the world know that when in autumn the Bismarcks of the world, or they who are bigger than Bismarcks, meet at this or that delicious haunt of salubrity, the affairs of the world are then settled in little conclaves, with grater ease, rapidity, and certainty than in large parliaments or the dull chambers of public offices?
Anthony Trollope
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'Count yourself lucky,' the potter went on, 'that you have understood this now and not spent your years in vain hope. This much have you learned, and no learning is wasted.'
Lloyd Alexander
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I don't know if my looks will ever get any better, but my pratfalls sure won't.
Chevy Chase
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For the modern physicist, reality is the whole thing, past and future joined in a single history. The sensation of now is just that, a sensation, and different for everyone. Instead of one master clock, we have clocks in multitudes.
James Gleick
