John Corabi Quotes
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Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.
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A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.
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The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
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Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota.
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Gandalf saves the world and saves the soul of the world, really.
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My sister lives in Oklahoma. And, you know, it is so shocking that James Inhofe, the foremost climate-denying senator, is from the state that is so deeply climate-affected.
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J. R. Smith's incredible, man, just incredible off the bench.
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I don't look at the tabloids. I don't read the tabloids.
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I don't really know how to act that much. I'm quite good at comedy, but it's mostly acting naturally.
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The greatest gift is our own eyes, sense of smell, and abilities to deduce.
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When I was submitting my first novel, I had no idea that publishing scams existed. I never encountered any, but I could have - and knowing how easily I might have been taken advantage of makes me determined to protect others from falling into that trap.
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Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
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My relations with Korchnoi depend on whether he has slept well. If he had bad dreams, he speaks a lot of rubbish.
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I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
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'Plum's are probably the funniest, but all the books have their own degree of humor. But if you're hooked into 'Ranger,' you're reading it for the romance.
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Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
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Believe it or not, we will actually be better and happier workers if we are allowed to be better parents. We might even rediscover our capacity for fun.
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For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.
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For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands.
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Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers.
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Talking Heads were a big influence on my comedy. For David Byrne, every album had to be different. With 'Portlandia,' every season has to be different. You gotta reinvent the look, all of it.
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There is an insect that people avoid (Whence is derived the verb 'to flee'). Where have you been by it most annoyed? In lodgings by the Sea.
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I think there are more good sportswriters doing more good sportswriting than ever before. But I also believe that the one thing that's largely gone out is what made sport such fertile literary territory - the characters, the tales, the humor, the pain, what Hollywood calls 'the arc.'
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I had a great run with Ratt.
