Erik Larson Quotes
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Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tragic intent. I don't know what to say to this except that I disagree wholeheartedly.
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If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.
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Many people struggle to make hummus that lives up to their expectations at home, and recreating a favourite brand or the stuff from your local deli is almost impossible.
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When I'm not on tour, I love to have a long breakfast at home in my garden.
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Torture is something that happens between two people, the torturer and the victim. The victim is made to taste death without actually dying. He is subjected to atrocious pain and begs his torturer to kill him. He's even ready to forgive the torturer as long as he kills him.
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I feel for food more than I could crave a woman. And that's the truth!
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Making ski racing fun and engaging for kids and families is an exciting opportunity and a real passion of mine.
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Pictures all around, of how good a life should be, a model for the rest, that bred insecurity, I walked a jagged line and then came back for more, it's always in my mind, an institution with no law.
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Every photograph is a fake from start to finish.
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Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other.
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I think the best way to control a population is to urbanize and to educate women. We have seen historically in many, many countries that once women are educated and have opportunities, and that happens when they live in cities and once they improve their economies, they no longer want to have eight kids.
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The greatest encouragement is conveyed in prayer.
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If Manliness had a soundtrack, the score would be metal.
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Whales are drinking all our water and eating our sailors.
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We all get caught up in what we're doing that we forget to start setting ourselves up for the future.
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Go to the people
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Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others; the real work of the sinister
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The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.
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I think the most attractive thing is a sense of humour. If someone can make you laugh, you've gotten a lot out of the way.
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When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.
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Mixed use is what cities are all about. If you don't have mixed use you don't have cities.
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No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck.
