Anthony Doerr Quotes
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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I don't think I'm as educated as Whoopi, so I'm lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it means to be here, are similar.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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Being born Roman and Romanisti is a privilege.
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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You teach your kids about your beliefs and tell them what you think is right and the conclusions that you've come to from living in the world, and then they can make their own decisions.
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I like heels and make-up.
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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot.
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Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.
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All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.
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Americans were people who wanted to leave every place better than they found it, to leave every man more of a man than they found him. ... Americans could open doors to almost all that was admirable - it was their misfortune, not their fault, that movies and victrolas and advertisements squeezed in when they opened the door.
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Indeed, every book on my shelves is a key to a little vault of memories.
