Erik Larson Quotes
I was born with the devil in me,' Holmes wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.
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In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.
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The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.
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I have a weird and undying love for George Michael. He's the reason why I want to do what I do.
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The emphasis on sorcery reflected accusations by the authorities more than it did actual practice. Being threatened, the Church responded by virulent persecution.
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If you like the system as it is, I’m not your guy… If you want a shot at changing it, join me.
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Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who prove themselves of so much hardier stuff than the rest that no power on earth is able to destroy them. The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
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Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.
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Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.
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I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.
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I saw a lot of movies that I probably shouldn't have seen. I saw 'Dog Day Afternoon' when I was in first grade - that kind of thing.
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The Islamic State has proven that terrorists can seize and deploy modern military equipment on lesser-armed opponents.
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If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.
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I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes. Eyes are so important. Until they start melon-balling eyes out, I won't be able to get to know someone another way.
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Mirror neurons make human empathy possible.
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The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.
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The financial crisis in our country is not a passing storm. Given the size of the problems, our national effort will not be completed in 2012. It will take many years and will require the efforts and insistence of several governments.
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I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.
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I was born with the devil in me,' Holmes wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.
