Ed McBain Quotes
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
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My parents are so cool, so chill, super hip. They know what's up.
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Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
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Low income persons in need of social housing should be housed in more prosperous areas to avoid placing an extra burden on the poorer areas and to redress the balance in terms of housing, redressing the balance in terms of schooling.
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I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and over and forgetting your line halfway through.
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Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.
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Only the free mind knows what Love is.
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Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.
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But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it rational? Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this Earth to do.
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I went to music school, and I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student.
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To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.
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Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it.
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In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.
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Don't be afraid to tread new ground, but do a sanity test.
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When I'm on the operating table, I'm happy for the surgeon to treat me as a machine, but the moment I return to consciousness I have other needs and aspirations that should be recognized. We're not here only to survive or extend our individual or species life but to do something seemingly more difficult, for which I've used words and phrases like 'love' and the 'Kingdom of God'.
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At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.
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I’m getting so I miss my morning coffee and corpse.
