Howard Blum Quotes
Gold has an almost atavistic lure. People feel it has a panacea effect.
Howard Blum
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I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
Idina Menzel
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I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
Damien Chazelle
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Every time we can't drill a well in America, terrorism is being funded. Every onerous regulation puts American lives at risk.
Harold Hamm
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I am just as ordinary as anyone else, and I also have my problems, but I also am responsible for my own health. So I'll be on that exercise bike, I'll be out there walking and try to improve my health and diet as much as I'm expecting of other Tasmanians.
Lara Giddings
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Modern culture is defined by this extraordinary freedom to ransack the world storehouse and to engorge any and every style it comes upon.
Daniel Bell
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Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Instead of a government with steel in its backbone, we've got one with Steel in its pocket.
Margaret Thatcher
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Bradlaugh makes the most noise, but the Irish Evictions Bill is much the most serious thing. ... If the Eviction Act passes, there will not be many more seasons. It is a revolutionary age and the chances are, that even you and I may live to see the final extinction of the great London Season, which was the wonder and admiration of our youth.
Benjamin Disraeli
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I was shy. I was more than shy.
Marion Cotillard
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It is possible to assemble a narrative for yourself, brokenly, on social media, only seeing what you want to look at.
Alexandra Petri
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I don't know how you talk about the founding of America, and what became of the United States, without talking about religious doctrine.
Bill Haslam
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I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors. I've also been looking for the consistency of work that TV provides for you. And, I always thought it would be really interesting to live with a character for months, if not years.
Christina Ricci
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It's a great project that allows a recurring revenue stream to happen in bars, restaurants and airline lounges. These aren't for arcades.
Nolan Bushnell
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I really like to kid around, and it's my own way of concentrating. In order for me to be able to feel better and concentrate, I need everybody else around me to be relaxed.
Omar Sy
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You can solo-climb Everest without using oxygen or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses, lay in 6,000 feet of fixed ropes, and have one Sherpa pulling you and another pushing you. ... The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.
Yvon Chouinard
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In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
Samuel E. Morison
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Gold has an almost atavistic lure. People feel it has a panacea effect.
Howard Blum
