Richie Ashburn Quotes
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To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.
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The love of Louis XVI for mechanical works is well known. He had a little workshop at Versailles where he amused himself making locks, assisted by Francois Gamain, to whom he was much attached and with whom he spent many hours in projecting and executing mechanical contrivances.
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Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.
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I'm usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they've aired. But I love 'House of Cards,' 'The Killing,' 'Orange Is the New Black,' loved 'True Detective,' and 'Arrested Development' when it was on. Also 'The Wire,' though I was way late to the game on that.
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Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, electronically, robotically, blahblahblah, intercut with traditional Japanese cultural patterns, Shinto patterns.
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There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.
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A man is known by the silence he keeps.
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Orson Welles was lazy. He was a late bloomer.
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I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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Is it ever too late for a sequel?
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I used to feel it was too late for me; I'd had my shot. You couldn't make a pop star out of me.
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The news comes somewhat late, but I'm glad to hear it nevertheless.
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I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
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I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.
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My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
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I've always known that singing was some sort of calling for me. It comes naturally.
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In the late 1950s, self-esteem hadn't yet been invented. High schools saw their sole mission as preparing students thoroughly for academic work.
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I know my dad is a big Internet freak, and he's been known to be a Wikileaker.
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Entrepreneurial creation is the generation, de novo, of novelty and surprise- freedom of choice originating in the world of ideas, and imagination beyond all concern with chemicals. The contrary view- that all ideas are determined by material relationships- is the materialist superstition.
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There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level.
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I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"
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I look at the newspapers, and I cannot believe most of the stories I read. Bernie Madoff, who actually screwed millions of people for billions of dollars, it's just unbelievable what he got away with and how long it took for him to be exposed. A guy like that should be hanged.
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I wish I'd known early what I had to learn late.
