Christian D. Larson Quotes
When anyone is going wrong, it is a mistake to warn him not to go further. It is also a mistake to leave him alone. The proper course is to call his attention to something better, and frame our conversation in such a way that he becomes wholly absorbed in the better. He will then forget his old mistakes, his old faults and his old desires, and will give all his life and power to the building of that better which has engaged his new interest.Christian D. Larson
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
Rachel Cusk -
Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.
Gary Miller Bad Brains -
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicolson -
To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
Ian MacKaye -
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
Ian MacKaye -
Government bonds have basically been sold in the domestic market, so there is some sense of stability, but the amount of public debt is really severe... Japan must manage its finances with a sense of urgency.
Yoshihiko Noda
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Gail Sheehy -
Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
Harlan Stone -
Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
Karin Slaughter -
Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the chemistry of life.
Randy Schekman -
Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.
Ian Schrager -
A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.
Karl Marx
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One thing about writing 'The Sarah Silverman Program' was the concern that I don't give myself the best story, you know what I mean?
Brian Posehn -
The key is to somehow find a way of tackling rent-seeking, crony capitalism, and corruption - legal and illegal - and build fairer, more equal society without compromising innovation or entrepreneurship.
Angus Deaton -
Writing is a form of activism.
Angie Thomas -
I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination. It develops your paranoia. You feel paranoid when you don't understand a country, and being paranoiac is excellent for fiction.
Amelie Nothomb -
I've been using a computer for quite some time, and I don't understand everything.
Betty Parsons -
The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.
David Sarnoff
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Truly huge artistic collaboration on the Internet seems to work only if the gang has a well-defined objective.
Clive Thompson -
You never know what's going to happen in the future.
Kris Wu -
The power that you have as a young woman, unless you have great self-esteem, is largely based on how the rest of the world reacts to you. And so it's kind of a superficial confidence that you have, you know?
Amanda de Cadenet -
People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power.
Daphne Zuniga -
I tried to become a family man. I got married, but it didn't work out. After 22 months we got an annulment. Then I married an Italian girl, which resulted in an immediate annulment. I had two annulments by the time I was 23.
Dominic Chianese -
When anyone is going wrong, it is a mistake to warn him not to go further. It is also a mistake to leave him alone. The proper course is to call his attention to something better, and frame our conversation in such a way that he becomes wholly absorbed in the better. He will then forget his old mistakes, his old faults and his old desires, and will give all his life and power to the building of that better which has engaged his new interest.
Christian D. Larson