Alan Furst Quotes
Women take great care of themselves in France. It's a culture dedicated to making women beautiful and to manners.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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I don't know, I like to go on really different types of dates. Going someplace new or some new part of the city, something that's not your average thing. Something where you just go have an adventure together.
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I wear clothes and sell products and ideas.
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'Vice Squad' needed to be real if it was going to have the impact that I wanted it to have.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
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In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
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You see, lots of the real people can't do it at all: they're such fools that they think style comes by nature to people in their position; and so they never learn. There's always something professional about doing a thing superlatively well.
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Faced with the alternative of saying goodbye to the gold standard, and therefore to his own employment, and goodbye to other people's employment, Mr. Churchill characteristically selected the latter course.
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We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.
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Women take great care of themselves in France. It's a culture dedicated to making women beautiful and to manners.
