Anthony Marra Quotes
For the uninitiated, 'Calvin and Hobbes' is a daily comic strip detailing the antics of an unruly six-year-old and his misanthropic stuffed tiger. The boy, whose vocabulary is packed with more 10-dollar words than a GRE flashcard set, is named after John Calvin, the Reformation-era theologian who preached the doctrine of predestination.
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To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I always believe that people can learn a broader skill set. You need good technology and solving a big problem. I always think that, at it's core, it's solving a problem; you're not building technology for the sake of technology.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.
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If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
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I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on the readers and try to lead them to a conclusion. As a reader, I understand what a fair report is.
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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Fashion should be genderless; how people perceive the idea of beauty can vary from one to another.
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Extremes are ultimately their own side's worst enemy.
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
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I think that anyone who likes writing views 'The New Yorker' as the, you know, pinnacle of the publishing world. If you get 50 words published in 'The New Yorker,' it's more important than 50 articles in other places. So, would I love to one day write for them? I guess. But that's not my sole ambition.
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For the uninitiated, 'Calvin and Hobbes' is a daily comic strip detailing the antics of an unruly six-year-old and his misanthropic stuffed tiger. The boy, whose vocabulary is packed with more 10-dollar words than a GRE flashcard set, is named after John Calvin, the Reformation-era theologian who preached the doctrine of predestination.
