Lucan Quotes
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I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.
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Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.
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I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
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The Ecuadorean and Latin American press is not like the European or North American press, which has some professional ethics. They are used to being above the law, to blackmail, to extort.
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Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.
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I'm a fan of parchment and wood pulp.
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Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
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There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company. But you also end up in the company of people you don't admire, including some rather dodgy politicians.
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This is about getting into a corporation, screwing it up, putting in poison pills so your competitor can’t swallow it…. Very intricate game played in the 1980’s…. Mike Milken did it with junks bonds, Drexel Burnham.
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Each must the other take as sign, short sign To stop the whirlwind, balk the elements.
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Said one among them - 'Surely not in vain My substance of the common Earth was ta'en And to this Figure moulded, to be broke, Or trampled back to shapeless Earth again'.
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I'm not squeamish.
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Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.
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While the nature of warfare is changing and wars are moving into cities, they are also becoming longer and their consequences more impactful.
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I think I need to be taken away, dropped in some territory with just a lot of loud guys.
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Ultimately, that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself.
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Sit caeca futurimens hominum fati; liceat sperare timenti.
