Vince Flynn Quotes
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It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
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Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power here, Labor was in power here, we learnt a huge amount from the ALP's experience here.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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We have lost the idea that something can be secret because it is valuable, not because it's shameful. If you share everything with everybody, what have you got for yourself? I tweet and I blog, but I save a lot for myself. Not because I am ashamed.
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I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.
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I'm regularly speaking at London Business School and Harvard Business School. They're the next generation of leaders in the fashion industry.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
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On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
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Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
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After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.
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I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.
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I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.
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I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?
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I've always been fond of acoustic music.
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I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
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I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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After Year 12, I went to Vancouver for my gap year and met an agent who told me to lose 25 kg.
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Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.
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I've learnt that you are who you are, and in the end, if you don't believe it, then no one will.
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Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.
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My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.
