Bernard von NotHaus Quotes
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
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I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
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It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.
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I hate to travel with stuff.
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We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.
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All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or in large orchestras where a little noise more or less makes no difference.
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Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.
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I love people and I love to be around people.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots.
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Every so often, I am thanked for being 'unapologetically me.' I treasure those moments, those people, and remember them every time I'm feeling timid.
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We came to a side road, and off the side of the side road there was another fifteen foot cliff and at the bottom of the cliff there was another pile of garbage. And we decided that one big pile is better than two little piles, and rather than bring that one up we decided to throw ours down.
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I like to wake up each morning feeling a new man.
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Most people are cowards.
