Anthony Doerr Quotes
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If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.
Nathan Wolfe -
Well into the 20th century, scholars viewed economic advances as resulting from commercial innovations enabled by the discoveries of scientists - discoveries that come from outside the economy and out of the blue.
Edmund Phelps -
I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.
Vince Vaughn -
New York is a fantastic city.
Marat Safin -
Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.
Laura Marling -
You can grow without destroying the things that you love.
Ed McMahon
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I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka... and welcome to my chocolate factory.
Kanye West -
I don't think I understand the concept of regret. Because if I regret anything, that would mean, like, I hate myself.
Tao Lin -
I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!
Naomi Shihab Nye -
One good thing about TV Land is you're always surrounded by people who know what they're doing, in terms of your fellow actors.
Wayne Knight -
When you're in the day-to-day grind, it just seems like it's another step along the way. But I find joy in the actual process, the journey, the work. It's not the end. It's not the end event.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.
Galway Kinnell
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I've never told you the story of Alice in Wonderland, have I?
Edgar Bergen -
Before I discovered moviemaking, I hadn't found anything where I could kind of galvanize or meld all of the things that I wanted to do.
Maiwenn -
If I have to degrade myself or do something that I'm not willing to do as a Christian to get something, I'm just not willing to do it.
Quinton Aaron -
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?
W. Clement Stone -
For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts; it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cause I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls.
Van Morrison -
It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.
A. S. Byatt
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The dog was cold and in pain. But being only a dog it did not occur to him to trot off home to the comfort of the library fire and leave his master to fend for himself.
Albert Payson Terhune -
I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires.
Steve Buscemi -
Rod has such a wicked sense of humour. I loved him very much.
Rachel Hunter -
From one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it carries within itself; that is why Americans like speed, alcohol, thriller films and any sensational news: the demand for new things, and ever newer things, is feverish since nowhere will they rest.
Simone de Beauvoir -
Sometimes my readers ask me what else they should read, and I recommend Sebald.
Anthony Doerr