Edward Gibbon Quotes
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He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.
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I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. It's like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but it's almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.
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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
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I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.
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Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you're baseball team is the Mud Hens.
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.
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I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.
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Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.
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War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
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Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'
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Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
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The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations – rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.
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My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observations suggest will need no pointing out.
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I don't have to wait to realize the good old days.
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IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away to Linux.
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To err is human, but it feels divine.
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Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.
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Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.
