Richard K. Morgan Quotes

For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds.

Richard K. Morgan

• Honesty
• Corruption
• Violent
• Realistic

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• Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.

  

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• I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like.

  

  Lara St. John
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• A heart makes a good home for the friend.

  

  Yunus Emre
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• Hate is a very strong and heavy emotion, probably as strong as love. I don't think I can live with hatred. If something bad happens, you feel bad about it; you forgive and move on. There's no hatred.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
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• Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• I was married for four years, then success happened.

  

  Jackee Harry
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• Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
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• So I have people who tweet and ask me, 'You can't be this happy all the time. You can't be this cheerful.' Well, yes I am. From where I've come from and my family and what I see as real struggles in day to day life, through my reporting. I'm never going to look at challenges.

  

  Tamron Hall
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• Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

  

  W. Clement Stone
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• I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
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• The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Different
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• 'I bound her to me in all soft ways,I bound her to me in a net of days,Yet now she has gone in silence and said no word.How can we face these dazzling things, I ask you?There is no use: we cry: and are not heard.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • She
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• The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn. The more I do it, the more I'm humbled. I'm just always trying to get better at it. I pick up a few tricks along the way.

  

  Cliff Martinez
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• Coconut oil is one of the most beneficial sources of fat. It is comprised of medium-chain fatty acids or MCFAs, which are easier to break down and metabolize into energy than large-chain fatty acids, which are often stored in the body as fat for later use.

  

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• The Mediterranean is in my DNA. I'm fine inland for about a week, but then I yearn for a limitless view of the sea, for the colours and smells of the Italian and French Riviera.

  

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• I love working on cars.

  

  Angela Cope

• I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

  

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• NATO continues to support a political solution which brings an end to the violence in Kosovo.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Support
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• I love a hotel that offers Wi-Fi Internet access, especially if it's free. But I never access sensitive information, like my bank account or an online shopping site that stores my credit card information, on a public Wi-Fi connection.

  

  Jean Chatzky
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• All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number. This truth (the only one) is for the strong alone. Weak-nerved minds insist on a finite universe, a last number; they need, in Nietzsche's words, "the crutches of certainty". The weak-nerved lack the strength to include themselves in the dialectic syllogism.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
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  • Essence

• Mankind can live free in a society hemmed in by laws, but we have yet to find a historical example of mankind living free in lawless anarchy.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Historical
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• Once information slipped the bonds of gravity and friction, it tended to gather where it was most valuable.

  

  H. W. Brands
  • Information
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• For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds.

  

  Richard K. Morgan
  • Honesty
  • Corruption
  • Violent