Walter Morey (Walt Morey) Quotes
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
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I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.
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I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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The last thing I would do to this country is to even put my personal interests about the country's interest. I have never done that in my life, and I will never do it because I, you know, I was brought up as a very patriotic Egyptian, and this is not just going to happen.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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I've always felt I had the ability to be a good, elite defender in this league on the wing. I just need to lock in. I feel if I pick that up, I can be a very good all-around player.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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Our mission was to make sure that the bad guys, basically, did not get nuclear weapons.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.
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If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.
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I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium until 2012, I don't care.' I then won Olympic gold.
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We think we have the best matching algorithm, we think we have the best members. So why wouldn't we want to just shine the light onto just how our processes work, what the real data are, and let people come to their own conclusions.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.
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As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'
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“Man has to fight for what he wants, any way he can.”
