Bentley Little Quotes
Like most authors, I'm a raging egomaniac. I know that about myself. And I know that, if I had internet access, I would waste countless hours looking up things about myself, writing fake posts about how great I am and arguing with people who don't like my work. It saves me a lot of time and frustration to just stay out of the loop.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.
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My daughter Mira's first media experience was with the first-generation iPad more than five years ago. Her speech therapist used this with her to encourage her to talk, as she was speech delayed. I watched as she immediately navigated the iPad naturally, with such ease.
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Reach, and all that other stuff, doesn't play as big a part in MMA as it does in boxing. Guys don't really fight with their length all that much, because they have to worry about the takedown or kicks. They have to worry about so many other things that they can't just fight real tall.
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I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.
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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I've always had an addictive nature.
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How can you think and hit at the same time?
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.
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I've made Umno more democratic, more inclusive. Of course, by doing that, I'm putting myself at risk.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for not reading novels! I'm also a game writer who doesn't play games - I keep everything very separate. The only crossover with me is comics. I write them, and I read them passionately.
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I never wanted to be an actor. I got stuck in it and kind of liked what I was doing.
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It's hard work just being on set 14 hours a day.
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Conservatives and companies condoned Rush Limbaugh's politics of personal destruction when it came to smearing elected officials. 'Fair game,' they said, even when crass and crude. That's just the way it is.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.
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Like most authors, I'm a raging egomaniac. I know that about myself. And I know that, if I had internet access, I would waste countless hours looking up things about myself, writing fake posts about how great I am and arguing with people who don't like my work. It saves me a lot of time and frustration to just stay out of the loop.
