James Patterson Quotes
When I was 26, I wrote my first mystery, 'The Thomas Berryman Number', and it was turned down by, I don't know, 31 publishers. Then it won an Edgar for Best First Novel. Go figure.James Patterson
Quotes to Explore
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Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.
Yehuda Berg -
Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.
Camille Claudel -
You have to see if the batsman is coming out, if he is staying back, what his grip is like, to gauge his intentions. A common trend I have observed is, a lot of batsmen change their grips when they are looking to hit: normally they either go high or slide their hand to the bottom of the handle to get maximum power.
Harbhajan Singh -
I don't persuade to suicide.
Jack Kevorkian -
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie -
The metaphor I've used is... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets.
Randy Pausch
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Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.
Kaskade -
What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.
Aaron Levie -
I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.
Ira Glass -
I wasn't trying to fit into a thing... it was not like I was like, 'Right, I'm the Han; I'm the Leia; I'm the Luke.' I was just like, 'Okay, I'm Rey, just trying to do me, just trying to do this scene, trying to do the right thing,' and I think that was a huge advantage because I think if not, it would've been a very different thing.
Daisy Ridley -
New-season lamb shoulder, cooked pink, is the perfect platform for a mixture of fresh and cooked herbs.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I enjoy being on CNBC's 'Fast Money,' in part so that audiences can watch a woman who is as well informed about, and invested in, the market as her male counterparts.
Karen Finerman
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I'll always be a foreigner.
Olivier Martinez -
Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.
Edgar Rice Burroughs -
My basics are black, white, or neutral, and I'll wear a ton of jewelry or carry a brightly colored bag.
Rachel Zoe -
I'm running because we need change.
Zack Space -
If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
Import and substituting imports with domestic production are a big opportunity. With a devaluation of the rupee, imports get expensive, and for Indian manufacturers, this creates a huge opportunity.
Baba Kalyani
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The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays.
Leonardo da Vinci -
The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an artist.
Eric Maisel -
I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.
Uri Geller -
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.
Whittaker Chambers -
When I was 26, I wrote my first mystery, 'The Thomas Berryman Number', and it was turned down by, I don't know, 31 publishers. Then it won an Edgar for Best First Novel. Go figure.
James Patterson