Brian Herbert Quotes
My grandfather was a police officer. He taught Dad about lie detectors and police interrogation methods, so Dad got this old World War II lie detector and used it on us regularly. He was obsessed with the truth.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
Samantha Power
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
Barrett Foa
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
Wayne Rogers
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
Narendra Modi
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
Saint Basil
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
Jack Nicklaus
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
Barney Frank
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Igor Stravinsky
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
Saffron Burrows
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
Patrick Modiano
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
Carl Hiaasen
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
Jack Whittaker
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
Paavo Nurmi
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.
Ralph Stanley
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
C. K. Williams
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I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.
A. Scott Berg
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
Jack Schmitt
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Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.
Debi Thomas
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I respect my dad, and he's amazing. He's my hero. He's the Beatles, man - or one of them.
James McCartney
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Any time you're working in the world of taming animals, you're going to get hurt. But it's a rush that we get.
Cesar Millan
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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Max Beerbohm
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My grandfather was a police officer. He taught Dad about lie detectors and police interrogation methods, so Dad got this old World War II lie detector and used it on us regularly. He was obsessed with the truth.
Brian Herbert