Richard Preston Quotes
If you want to survive Ebola, you need to be young. If you're in your late 30s, the death rate is about 80 percent, and if you're over 45, then the death rate goes up to about 90 percent.
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I love doing the dishes... not for the act of cleaning but because I get to put my headphones in, listen to music, and ignore the world for an hour, and it's totally acceptable because I'm cleaning.
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I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!
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I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.
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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
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The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.
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I don't want to make music that is hot now; I want to make music that is hot forever.
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All these people who scream about Kashmir being an armed camp are in fact responsible for keeping it that way.
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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
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My parents were incredibly inclusive.
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Condition and guts take over where knowledge and skill end.
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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.
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You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another. You cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple.
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Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.
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Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They are directly subject to our influence.
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It's the heart that really matters in the end.
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The only man who has stolen my heart is my son.
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But you need to have lived years in nothingness to understand how a person can suddenly become frightened by a possibility.
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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I'm not a clotheshorse or a big shoes guy.
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If you want to survive Ebola, you need to be young. If you're in your late 30s, the death rate is about 80 percent, and if you're over 45, then the death rate goes up to about 90 percent.
