Rick Yancey Quotes
The aliens of 'The 5th Wave' are not the aliens we've imagined. Not the aliens we'd like to attack us.
Quotes to Explore
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Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies.
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Looks like that's the character of what we have right now.
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God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time.
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Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.
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O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
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I want to be part of the human race I want to live, breathe.
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Five o'clock tea" is a phrase our "rude forefathers," even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completelyis it a thing of to-day; and yet, so rapid is the March of the Mind, it has already risen into a national institution, and rivals, in its universal application to all ranks and ages, and as a specific for "all the ills that flesh is heir to," the glorious Magna Charta.
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Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him.
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I love to make things happen, I love to see things happen, I love to be a part of things that are happening.
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I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going? There was, I said, a magic in leaving a line of footprints stretching across Asia.
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The problem is that you're creating a system of bubble finance where interest rates are so low that people can speculate. An asset value goes up. You put it up as collateral. You borrow against it. You buy more of the asset. You then take the rising asset. You borrow against it again. This is the nature of what's going on in the world. This isn't an excess of real savings. This is an excess of artificial credit that's being fueled by all the central banks.
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Imagination makes us shape better stories, sure, but it also allows us to multiply possibilities.
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...what's always exciting is when you hear something amazing when you least expected it. Every now and then I'll hear something for the first time that forces me to re-examine my frames of reference, and re-consider musical parameters in general, and that's wonderful . And what's even more wonderful in a way, is when you hear something that you know, and already think you have an opinion about, and then suddenly discover that it isn't what you thought it was, but something quite different, which makes it just as surprising as if you'd never heard it before. That's REALLY great!
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I want people like Rocky. I like underdogs; I’ve been one all my life. I like people who take it as a challenge when they’re told they can’t do something. This whole situation is a little like that.
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Any terrorism is an attack on libertarian values.
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If you are going to survive in business, show business or any business, then you have to be bold.
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The aliens of 'The 5th Wave' are not the aliens we've imagined. Not the aliens we'd like to attack us.
