Harlan Coben Quotes
Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.
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We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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Why would you want someone who is conflicted and doesn't know if they love you or not?
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Your basic physical makeup does influence the parts you're offered. If you're big, they cast you either dumb or tough, although there are exceptions. Clint Eastwood and James Arness carved out niches for themselves in Westerns. I just hope I won't be faced with doing 'Li'l Abner' in dinner theater for the rest of my career.
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By cultivating rich social networks, by cultivating weak ties, not just close ties but the weak ties, by becoming connectors and by connecting others so that they connect us, we create a world in which these self-amplifying feedback loops feed on top of each other.
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Now you can get artisanal everything - pickles, coffees, house-cured meats, mustard. The pendulum has swung back to this kind of food, and it gives me the greatest hope for the future, especially because we're living in a time with issues like polluted Gulf Coast seafood and food labeled organic that may not really be organic.
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Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.