Sharon Begley Quotes
The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of my favorite shows.
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I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
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What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.
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I know Penny Toler and coach Ross have worked hard to put together a strong team this year, and I am ready to start the season with my teammates.
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Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East.
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The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.
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If you like to bake with eggs, you can substitute Ener-G egg replacer, bananas, tofu, or many other ingredients. You get the hang of it quickly enough.
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I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my mouth, then my diabetes just stays in check.
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My goal … not to go back to Rembrandt … but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.
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Music falls on the silence like a sense, A passion that we feel, not understand.
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Torvalds, Linus (2012-12-23). Linus Torvalds - LKML. Retrieved on 2012-12-29.
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Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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People need to trust what gardai say on the stand, and I can understand that perhaps in a scenario whereby lots of things are happening quickly and people are caught up in the heat of the moment, they may have a recollection that isn't exactly as things happened.
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My dad says he has doubts all the time, but he doesn't allow them to question that moment when he was nineteen.
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I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.
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I remember on 'Jug Face' working with Chad Crawford Kinkle, who is as sweet as they come. He told me someone had given him advice that if you're making a drama, you basically need to put your main protagonist through living hell in every scene, and then you'll have a successful film. He laughed it off until watching me every day!
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The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.
