Alan Furst Quotes
I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.Alan Furst
Quotes to Explore
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
Zoe Kravitz -
Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
Barbara Goldsmith -
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Zig Ziglar -
You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
V. S. Naipaul -
The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
Ed Asner -
Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
Nancy Pelosi
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
Oprah Winfrey -
You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
Daniel Berrigan -
I love sport and will do just about anything. Someone said they'd had a go at skiing off a mountain with a parachute, and that sounds great!
Victoria Pendleton -
Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.
Fareed Zakaria -
Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
Wayne Dyer -
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
H. L. Mencken
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I always dreamed of going to the Olympics. To be going to the Games in your own country is another thing; to do it as a potential medallist is another thing again.
Hannah Mills -
What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
Vaclav Klaus -
Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
W. H. Davies -
Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
W. Edwards Deming -
TV is starting to become such a collective experience again. People are watching it on their own time, rather than being on a schedule. Netflix offers the easy opportunity to watch as much as you can.
Landon Liboiron -
There's no wrong way to experience a film.
Vera Farmiga
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I want to inspire people to do whatever they desire in life.
Demetrius Shipp, Jr. -
It is now the scientific consensus that our risk-avoidance mechanism is not mediated by the cognitive modules of our brain, but rather by the emotional ones. This may have made us fit for the Pleistocene era. Our risk machinery is designed to run away from tigers; it is not designed for the information-laden modern world.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Computer hacking really results in financial losses and hassles. The objectives of terrorist groups are more serious. That is not to say that cyber groups can't access a telephone switch in Manhattan on a day like 9/11, shut it down, and therefore cause more casualties.
Kevin Mitnick -
I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.
Santi White -
For to a folysshe demaunde behoueth a folysshe ansuere.
William Caxton -
I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.
Alan Furst