Jeff Lindsay Quotes
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
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I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the interest from Manchester United was a perfect fit.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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I just never, in my career, got into doing a lot of press.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.
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What's beautiful about Godzilla is, of course, it's in every way a symbol of Japan dealing with the aftermath of the atomic bombs being dropped on them, and their ideas of how they're affected by it.
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ISIS is very similar to the Kharijites, who were a toxic off-shoot of Islam. It's not Islam; it's a perversion of Islam, and to label these militant externalities as Islam is to legitimize their actions.
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I invite people to read the hundreds of positive articles instead of getting affected by the occasional outburst from a troll.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.
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I think the Cosmic Psychos were a band that was highly influential on the Seattle so called grunge scene. I know that Kurt and Nirvana were fans, they played shows with Pearl Jam. Even thou the Cosmic Psychos never had the commercial impact or success that those bands had, they were still a major influence on them, and I think a lot of it had to do with the spirit and the sound of their music.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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There've been a few mother-daughter movies that are somewhat realistic. But the mother-son movies are more comical than realistic: 'Throw Momma from the Train,' 'Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot.' You don't sit in the dark and go, 'Oh my God, that's my mother.'
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I was expecting someone dark to play 'Dexter' - someone like Johnny Depp.
