Richard Preston Quotes
No one knows exactly when or where the redwood entered the history of life on earth, though it is an ancient kind of tree and has come down to our world as an inheritance out of deep time.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'
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A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
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I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women's rights; rather, I am focusing on women to be independent to fight for themselves.
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I have a lot of artists who I just love to hear their music, and I'm a fan of them.
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Looking back now toward the startYou said you thought I'd lost my pathAnd I asked if you still considered love an artAnd you said "No, I think it's more a craft"And I just turned and laughedI just had to turn and laugh.
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I prize thy gentle heart, Free from ambition, falsehood, or art, And thy good mind, Daily refined, By pure desire To fan the heaven-seeking fire.
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The less you know about a field, the better your odds. Dumb boldness is the best way to approach a new challenge.
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If you can remove a female character from your plot and replace her with a sexy lamp and your story still works, you're a hack.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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This business is crazy-pants. We flit in and out of these fantasy worlds and these intense periods of work and camaraderie, and then it goes away, and you do it all over again.
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Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.
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People don't see this side of me. They don't know I read, like, 800 million spiritual books. Lately I am just really getting into a lot of spirituality.
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The reason we're so dangerous is because we're totally harmless.
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For someone to say I am overweight is completely ridiculous.
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No one knows exactly when or where the redwood entered the history of life on earth, though it is an ancient kind of tree and has come down to our world as an inheritance out of deep time.
