Erik Larson Quotes
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Think and grow rich.
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I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
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Street artists need to get back to actually doing things on the streets instead of in the galleries where they all seem to be ending up. I hope this term 'street artist' falls from the face of the earth, in my honest opinion.
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We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
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As I have said many times - I like Facebook. I think it is well built and run. It's cool. I think it is, in its next-step way, even visionary.
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Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.
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By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.
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Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
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We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and are now blighting the most promising minds of the next generation. This is a major crisis if there ever was one, and every sensible person must help bring it to an end.
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Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.
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One of my favorites is Angela Merkel because I think she's been an extraordinary, strong leader during difficult times in Europe, which has obvious implications for the rest of the world and, most particularly, our country... her bravery in the face of the refugee crisis is something that I am impressed by.
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Bus driver, bus driver, the sirens have gone,The bombs may come down, but the buses go on;Bus driver, I know you won't think me a snobIf I whisper: 'Bus driver, I don't want your job'.
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So for those of you who haven't read any of my five best-selling books: Liberals are driven by Satan and lie constantly.
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Happiness does not await us all. One needn’t be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.
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I get on with people. I don't hang out with people who aren't nice. It's like, be real or go home.
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I work out all the time, but because it's good for my mental state.
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Sex is God's joke on the human race ... if we didn't have sex to make us ridiculous, She would have had to think up something else instead.
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My approach is that you have to earn the respect of people you work with.
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You must strive to find your own voice because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all.
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Wealth creation is not a mathematical formula, as the truthseeking quant geeks still want everyone to believe. In the end, their lack of real-world experience and pride corrupted their mathematical genius and destroyed them. You may be able to digitize a daVinci, but that does not make it daVinci. Creating wealth is personal. It is creating assets, creating value, or whatever act of self-perpetuation that drives us to create a legacy.
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I pride myself on having a journalistic remove.
