Bob Myers Quotes
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In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact.
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I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.
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Once you digitize data, you can actually analyze patterns and relationships in geographic space - relationships between certain health patterns and air or water pollution, between plants and climate, soils, landscape.
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Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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In his enigmatic and cunning story 'The Crown of Feathers,' Isaac Bashevis Singer refuses to produce uncontradictory evidence of God's will but rather mixes all signals, jams the evidence, stalls every conclusion.
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Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.
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These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
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In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.
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Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
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Educated women armed with computers have defeated extremists by denying them a monopoly to define cultural identity and interpret religious texts. No extremist can say that women are inferior to men without being made a laughingstock on Al Jazeera. Islam insisted on equality between everyone.
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I love being a writer so much that I almost can't believe that I am one.
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Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.
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I like to get on with people. I don't go around being nasty, but if someone crosses me, I can be horrible back.
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Sir, we happen to be on a mullet hunt. Have you seen any mullets going this way?
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Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't.
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Often the lack of clear direction and goals can waste away our time and energy and contribute to imbalance in our lives. A life that gets out of balance is much like a car tire that is out of balance. It will make the operation of the car rough and unsafe. Tires in perfect balance can give a smooth and comfortable ride. So it is with life. The ride through mortality can be smoother for us when we strive to stay in balance.
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People don't like to be nagged. When people nag us, we instantly resist, but when the facts force us in that same direction, we instantly adapt.
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We are a fighting nation, continually struggling to overcome diseases from within... and to face up to foreign intervention from without.
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
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And although we may be delicate and soft, some men who are delicate are also strong; and others, coarse and harsh, are cowards.
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I can see the advantage because this gives you a clear direction of where to go.
