Amber Dermont Quotes
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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There's been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He's a good lefty hitter; he's hit a few home runs off of me. They were a couple of mistakes, so if you make your pitches, you're more likely to have a better outcome.
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Politics is a good thing!
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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I'm one of the first invention capitalists.
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I like - I love calculus. I love linear algebra, probability and statistics, that kind of stuff. I just really like that.
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I believe in conscientious capitalism; that's a kind of driving force with me.
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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
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No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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He's one of my closest friends in the industry. He makes me feel like a teenager - I have to act and think like an adult so much. He makes me feel young again.
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Barbados: 'A proper bum island this Barbados....It's a unique sort of scenery, very ugly, & I didn't take much to the coloured population, who are revolting.' (26-27 March 1920)
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I never wear suits.
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The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
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We are determined to build a society defined by decency and integrity that does not tolerate the plunder of public resources nor the theft by corporate criminals of the hard-earned savings of ordinary people.
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The food in Europe is pretty disappointing. I like fried chicken. But other than that Europe is great.
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Your No. 1 priority as a defender is to keep the ball out of the back of the net.
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I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it's changed so that every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don't know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something.
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I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a flower and say, "Look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. But then he'll say, "I, as an artist, can see how beautiful a flower is. But you, as a scientist, take it all apart and it becomes dull." I think he's kind of nutty. ... There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.
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I slept well that night because someone had been kind to me.
