Andre Dubus Quotes
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth.
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For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.
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My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.
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On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood.
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The captain of the Hampshire grenadiers...has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire.
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We are not going to sit idly by and permit state actors to go after our information, our private-sector information or our public-sector information.
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The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.
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The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
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I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dangerous.
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Oh my God, I love Max von Essen.
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Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.
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I've signed many documents as president and CEO as required by law. I signed every single document that we were required to file - every single one of them.
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The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant, nor abuse, touches it in any way. When it has been made a sphere, it continues a sphere.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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I sit here for hours. It's like sitting amongst lighthouses, each lighthouse giving you a bearing on lost spaces of time...
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For our excess we lost everything.
