Harlan Coben Quotes

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

Harlan Coben

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• Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.

  

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• Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.

  

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• When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian, or as idiots. I thought, well, how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people?

  

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• Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

  

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• Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.

  

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• Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.

  

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• Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.

  

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• Some women are smarter than men, and some aren't. But to suggest to women that they deserve dominance instead of equality is at best a cheap applause line.

  

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• This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
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• I think the fame aspect, there was definitely a period when I had to get used to it. My family had to get used to it, too. It's exciting.

  

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• China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.

  

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• I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.

  

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• I like to think of myself as classy.

  

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• I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!

  

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• I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.

  

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• I don't really see myself as an actor.

  

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• I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

  

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• But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.

  

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• I will always find a defense for characters, and that's why it's fun playing characters that are morally ambiguous, or are at least perceived superficially as being problematic.

  

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• Love isn't like money – the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.

  

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• You have the ability and gifts to do whatever you want". It is your turn now to change the world. Yes we can!

  

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• Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.

  

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• I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Children
  • True
  • Happiness