Anthony Doerr Quotes
Gold and diamonds are nice, but clean, crisp, controlled water has long been the preeminent hallmark of the rich.
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My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.
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I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.
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Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.
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A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.
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I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.
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Nobody wants to retire from football.
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associated with that cultivation concerning narco trafficking in Columbia.
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I further value this gift as it gave me an opportunity to accept this distinguished honor in a country so devoted to this cause and whose history marks a wonderful chapter in world development.
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The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.
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I think it's a competitive advantage that both Amazon and Google and other tech companies have over a lot of their counterparts. They take big risks and are pioneering new markets with the promise of big rewards. It's why Amazon is kind of reliably starting new businesses and opening kind of new frontiers.
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Our very long-term prospective hinges on making the best possible wine we can.
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Gold and diamonds are nice, but clean, crisp, controlled water has long been the preeminent hallmark of the rich.
