Jack Chick Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.
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It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful.
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When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
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Jill Clayburgh's life so closely paralleled mine, I feel as though a part of me lived a little through her and died a little with her.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.
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My most treasured item is the brown leather bag that my mum bought me from a little Italian shop for my 21st. It's supposed to be a vanity bag, but I use it as a handbag.
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Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws of physics that you don't understand, in a new universe. So having written one novel does nothing for you when you have to write the second one.
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At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
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But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.
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What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
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I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.
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Never on any golf course have I been approached by a policeman who said, 'Lady, you can't play with an ordinary golf ball. You're movie star. You'll have to use a coconut for a ball.
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I'm not scared of dying And I, don't really care If it' s peace you find in dyingWell then, let the time be near.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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When I graduated, I was my biggest ever: 15 stone, with a boyfriend - my first - of just 11 stone. I was 23 years old. It wasn't just affecting my career: it was a health issue as well.
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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.
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The important point is to be on the spot at the moment most favorable for gaining the desired advantage; and it will be found that of men who get what they want in this world, both those who seem to hasten and those who seem to lounge are always at the right place at the right time.
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Cop: Stinking straight!
