Andrew Klavan Quotes
If you're not at least willing to die for something- something that really matters- in the end, you die for nothing.
Quotes to Explore
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It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.
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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
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In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.
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I've never had a problem finding a team, a league, or a pickup game. Actually, I'm not sure I want soccer to get bigger. We have so many teams in San Francisco that there aren't enough fields.
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Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
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Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world.
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Sarah Corvus in 'Bionic Woman' was one of my favorite characters I've ever played, ever, for reasons that are very similar to Nikki in 'Sexy Evil Genius.' I felt that that show was taken away from me too soon, and I really wanted to dive back into that mind frame again.
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Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.
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I'd like to be an academic, a philosophy lecturer if possible. I'd do a Masters in Ancient Hebrew maybe, and a Ph.D. hopefully, if I get in.
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There's a balance in my life. There's reality, and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.
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Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.
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Why did virtually every culture reward its men for enduring violence? So it would have a cadre of people available to protect it in war.
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We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.
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It's sad that so many people feel they need to alter their image. I think there is something really beautiful about ageing naturally.
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We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them.
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Fraternity life, for me, really was about cheap rent and three square.
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I spend some of my time brooding about people who seem addicted to double standards - those who take an allegedly principled stand on a Monday, then switch firmly to the opposite principle on Tuesday if it is to their advantage.
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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem-in my opinion-to characterize our age.
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A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare.
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If you're not at least willing to die for something- something that really matters- in the end, you die for nothing.
