Daniel Byman Quotes
Terrorism is nothing new. Lots of terrorist attacks are nothing new, but we pay a lot more attention to them today.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.
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Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
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Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
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Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
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There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
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Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.
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No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
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I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I went to university, and I was going to do a Ph.D. in the States, but I didn't get the funding for it, so I had two years where I had a bit of a wobble and didn't really know what I wanted to do, and I ended up working as a banker.
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But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.
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There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.
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I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.
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I've been lucky enough to sort of go over different mediums, different vibes and genres.
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We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be 'informavores,' epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world.
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I haven't accomplished everything that I want to yet in my career, that's why I'm still playing. I just know that I still have something left inside of me to accomplish, and I don't know exactly what that is. Hopefully, I'll know one day soon.
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Boys are different from girls, but boys are also different from other boys, just as girls are different from other girls. Calling a book 'for boys' or 'for girls' is well-meaning, but to me, not terribly helpful.
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There's something great about having all the attention and focus. I mean, you can't beat that.
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The most useful thing I could do before this meeting is to keel over. On the other hand, artists are keeling over by the thousands every day and nobody seems to pay the least attention.
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In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.
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Second-generation Muslims who have lived all their lives in Europe are turning up among the suicide bombers and terrorists.
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Terrorism is nothing new. Lots of terrorist attacks are nothing new, but we pay a lot more attention to them today.
