Jeffrey Archer Quotes
When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.
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The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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In 'D.A.R.Y.L.' there was a part where I had to freeze to death, and they didn't even use it. It can get kind of frustrating. But I don't regret that I decided to become an actor. Besides, if I don't like it at any time, I can stop.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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Keep an eye on what your kids are seeing online. Parents need to stay involved in what their children are being exposed to. It's so important.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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It's hard to kill that father-son bond.
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I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.
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These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
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They call me Fearless Felix.
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Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it is great, it just isn't how I do things.
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I like to hold a book. When someone sends me a script, I ask for a hard copy or print one out.
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It's remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.
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You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'
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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
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Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.
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When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.
