Erik Larson Quotes
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
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I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I can't sing, but I'll sing over this chord progression, like, over and over, for however long it takes - sometimes it's, like, two minutes, sometimes it's 20 minutes - until I've found like a hook or something that I'm really happy with. And then, basically, it just like that's my melody, and that's where I start from.
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Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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I'm first generation in the country - my family's Mexican.
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It's rewarding to be recognized by the fans and other players for my abilities and to be able to represent the Arizona Cardinals fans from around the world.
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In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.
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I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.
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I want to have fun, but I don't quite know how.
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No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.
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I get this anxiety in cities and places like that. When you grow up in kind of a small town and when you grow up around a lot of green and trees and nature and that sort of thing, sometimes I think it's a little mentally disconcerting to be around this concrete.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
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I've always loved Spanish. I love my father's Spanish records.
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I think that the Greeks were extremely ambivalent about the stories of Amazons: they found them both thrilling and rather daunting at the same time.
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I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.
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Being on Oprah? You realize that there are a couple of types of audience members. There are like the cult people in the audience who are just crying before she gets on. And then there are the people who are playing it cool. I definitely was somewhere in the middle.
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I have a big mouth, and I have a temper, so that's not good for people. That's not good for executives.
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The Princess Bride S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone had a chance to read it.
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Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.
