Erik Larson Quotes
There's something so relentless and foul about Hitler and his people, and the way things progressed from year to year. It just got to me in the strangest way.
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More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
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If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
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We're one of the largest employers in Canada for animation executives, and there is - I think something on the magnitude of $140 million a year be important to the Canadian economy producing animation for Netflix.
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It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.
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China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.
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You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.
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Men are visual creatures.
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My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.
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I'm not really the sex symbol type.
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I need wrong to get laughs. I need a normal world so that I can be abnormal, and that's my problem. Comedians need prejudice.
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Lots of people speak Afrikaans. It's not a statement; it's just a language that we use to communicate. It has its own flavour; it's got its own slang. People laugh. People like it. They like us being open.
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If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him.
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I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.
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In my concerts, I'm always doing new songs, so someone seeing me for the first time or many times before will be pleasantly surprised and hopefully entertained.
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I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
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When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.
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I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.
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There's something so relentless and foul about Hitler and his people, and the way things progressed from year to year. It just got to me in the strangest way.
