Eric Van Lustbader Quotes
A cretin can kill you just as efficiently as a genius, and usually a whole lot quicker because a cretin has no conscience.
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
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What's genius about 'Gravity' is that you are close upon the actors, but 3D works best when you have foreground, middle ground and background.
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It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
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Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
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I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'
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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
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Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.
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The Italians must allow us to slaughter the Momands, because, if we do not kill the warlike hillmen, they will kill us. And we must allow the Italians to slaughter the Danakils for the same reason.
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Truth is too important to kill it in the streets for the sake of peace.
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Genius sees the answer before the question.
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To kill nothing, that is love.
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An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.
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Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.
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Administrator McCarthy and the EPA will soon find out that Washington bureaucrats are becoming far too aggressive in attacking our way of life. Administrator McCarthy should be apologizing to Missourians. EPA aggression has reached an all-time high, and now it must be stopped.
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Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist.
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What we call "willing" is often but an inflation of ourselves, attended by a hardening.
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I am one of those who like to stay late at the cafe," the older waiter said. "With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night." "I want to go home and into bed." "We are of two different kinds," the older waiter said. He was now dressed to go home. "It is not only a question of youth and confidence although those things are very beautiful. Each night. I am reluctant to close up because there may be someone who needs the cafe.
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A cretin can kill you just as efficiently as a genius, and usually a whole lot quicker because a cretin has no conscience.
