Barry Eisler Quotes

I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.

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• The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Die

• I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Long
  • Choice
  • Drink

• If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Good
  • Best

• When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Think
  • Confidence
  • Dance

• I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • People
  • Trying
  • Want

• If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Mind
  • Fall
  • Too Much

• I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Done

• I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Man
  • Boy
  • Before

• In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • You
  • Cool
  • Chess

• My father had very little formal education.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Father
  • Education
  • Little

• Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • You
  • Beauty
  • Comedians

• I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Great
  • Past
  • Star

• You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
  • You
  • Go

• I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Experience

• It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Science
  • Human
  • Situation

• I love everything to be organized and clean... all the time.

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Time
  • Clean
  • Organized

• For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Help
  • Team
  • Beginning

• I'm confident and really optimistic.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Really
  • Optimistic
  • Confident

• Engaged, enthusiastic, and loyal employees are pivotal drivers of growth and health in any organization.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Health
  • Growth
  • Organization

• To me, there is nothing like the excitement and unique experience of a live orchestra playing.

  

  Carmine Coppola
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Unique

• The virtual choir would never replace live music or a real choir, but the same sort of focus and intent and esprit de corps is evident in both, and at the end of the day it seems to me a genuine artistic expression.

  

  Eric Whitacre
  • Music
  • Live
  • Real

• I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Bad
  • Night
  • Black

• I'm a Queens boy at the end of the day.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Boy
  • Boys
  • Ends

• I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Training