David Bezmozgis Quotes
Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages.David Bezmozgis
Quotes to Explore
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
Otto von Bismarck -
Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.
Manoj Bhargava -
As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
Dan Rather -
I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
Earle Combs -
The reason we have cancer and heart disease is the same reason you can't get rid of the wear and tear on your tires on your car: as soon as you use them, you are wearing them away. You can't make eternal tires, and it's the same with the human body.
S. Jay Olshansky -
How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
Ferdinand Marcos
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Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
Karen Traviss -
You who speak languages, you are such liars.
Orson Scott Card -
There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
Said Nursi -
It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
Wang Shi -
Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.
Harry Browne -
I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
Danica McKellar
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I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.
Abigail Washburn -
I'm not the biggest horror fan. I get scared so easily. If I'm just walking on set, and someone taps me on the shoulder, I scream and jump and freak out.
Taissa Farmiga -
I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.
Garry Trudeau -
Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.
Felix Dennis -
My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.
Yann Martel -
From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.
Billy Crystal
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My favourite thing is to be somebody else, no longer be me.
Andie MacDowell -
One of the lyrics from Bono that always sticks with me is 'Where the Streets Have No Name.' Just the name of the song, that sort of oneness, and there isn't any division in yourself, and your just at peace and fired up at the same time.
Ed Kowalczyk -
Back in the days of Apollo, sending humans to the moon was the only viable way to get the scientific data we wanted. But now, with our computer and robotics technology, there's very little an astronaut can do on Mars that a well-designed rover can't.
Andy Weir -
People learn from their mistakes and move forward.
Lindsay Mendez -
I would rather face the terrorists than lose my civil liberties. If protecting our safety means taking away our Bill of Rights, then could I be so crass and bold as to scream 'Give me liberty or give me death'? Once freedom is gone-the bedrock foundation that built our country-what's left to stand for and believe in?
Jesse Ventura -
Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages.
David Bezmozgis