Patrick deWitt Quotes
I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
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You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
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I became friends with the leader of the underground vampire world. He had a fangsmith, so I had a pair made... It has become kind of my signature thing.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
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Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
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Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party.
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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I always had a problem when someone was trying to place sport in social and political context. Sport is a separate and unique kind of human activity, which functions under its own rules and principles. It has nothing to do with the political agenda, and neither it should. When politics interferes with sport, unjust things happen.
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You have to be very brave in that first writing session.
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There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise.
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Never give up on a good thing, never give up, never give up!
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I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.
