Gerald M. Loeb Quotes
The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me.
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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
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Culturally, the arts of Puerto Rico is really unmatched by any other island.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
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Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field.
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.
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In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.
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In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.
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People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.
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My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.
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I love retweeting things and seeing how many fans are on other people's pages.
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I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.
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As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook.
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You have to have a globally competitive mining dispensation.
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Do not, oh do not indulge such a wild idea that a newspaper might err! If so what have we to trust in this age of sham?
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With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.
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O that a lady, of one man refused, Should of another therefore be abused!
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I really am not a gold fan.
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Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty is no more than the beauty of gold, which is to say false and cold and useless.
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The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race.
