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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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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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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I have acting technique; I have singing technique; I don't have a writing technique to fall back on.
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I've been obsessed with seeing life through music. My records, my relationship with records, my relationship with rock stars, everything that surrounds it, has been really one of the only ways that I ever started to understand the world.
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I loathe categorization. I cherish my independence, and I treasure chivalry. I live just fine with ambiguity, and I welcome a good quarrel about all things designed or grown - except for when men misnomer 'confident' with 'poised' and 'passionate' with 'feisty.' I work hard.
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He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play seriously.
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I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases . . . but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book.
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I came into a strong organization, and I hope I strengthened it more and expanded its capacity to deal with some of the challenges that might not have seemed as great 10 years ago, such as H.I.V., AIDS and children affected by war.
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England and Denmark have a sense of irony and a darker sense of humour that you don't necessarily find in Germany and Sweden.
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I slept well that night because someone had been kind to me.
