Jimmy John Liautaud Quotes
As soon as I go to Wall Street, my customer - all of a sudden, I'm working for people that don't know me. They don't know how much I love what I do.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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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.
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One of the ideas that I wanted to highlight, which is actually a very bipartisan idea - it's not just about conservatives - is this worship of wealth, the CEO saviour.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.
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Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.
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I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie's 'Murder at the Vicarage.' I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales.
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I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.
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It really helped me as a writer to understand how other writers think.
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In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
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I am not a political thinker. I'm not even much of a thinker. I'm a hack novelist.
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We get very set in our ways and it's sometimes hard to look beyond what else is out there.
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Arthur Ashe Jr. is a true Virginia hero, and he belongs here.
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As soon as I go to Wall Street, my customer - all of a sudden, I'm working for people that don't know me. They don't know how much I love what I do.
