Rick Riordan Quotes
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.
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I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'
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When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
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I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.
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I've always been very tied to language.
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I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.
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Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union.
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You can't separate a house from a family. It's a living, breathing home.
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I'm exploring the long history of women, first of all, being silenced and, secondly, not being taken seriously in the political and public sphere. It's a call to action through understanding and through looking at ourselves again and trying to reformulate the whole question of women and power.
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You have to take responsibility for how you act. You can't fix everyone.
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All I care about, to be honest, is surfing. I love surfing more than anything. To me, there's nothing like that.
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You do take a beating in professional wrestling. But I love it.
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I make impact plays. I make game-changing plays.
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Everybody thinks I drink beer but I actually like cider!
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I could have easily got T-Pain or anybody like that, but let me just get somebody very left. That'll wake them up. Gaga. She's never done a rap record before. Pay attention. It's a method to my madness.
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.
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I'm a teacher still, but with a much larger classroom.
