Andy McNab Quotes
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Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I'm attracted to stories about characters whose lives are full of wounds and secrets. I'm not interested in who's going to ask me to the prom. I never went to a prom.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.
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My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
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I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'
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The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.
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You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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I think sometimes when I go to make a move on something, people try to disqualify any talent that I have or any hard work that I've done.
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Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.
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Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.
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The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.
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When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.
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Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over billions of years evolved into a human being. We are cousins, ten times removed, to the ape at the zoo eating his own excrement.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.
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So many songwriters peak in their early 20s because they're living off their passions.
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You have to move from just working for money to a world where money works for you.
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The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as mutually remote as the constellations.
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The cat: an animal that's so unpredictable, you can never tell in advance how it will ignore you the next time.
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I write about what I know – the places I’ve worked, the situations I’ve found myself in.
