Ben Mezrich Quotes

There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

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• If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Men
  • Law
  • Liberty

• Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • War
  • Civil War
  • Universities

• But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Unhappy

• I am proud to be a Sikh and am a true disciple of Guru Gobind Singh, who sacrificed his entire family for the Sikh religion.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Family
  • Proud
  • Religion

• The key thing about force protection is... if you focus too much on force protection, and you disengage yourself from the community, you're putting yourself at greater risk because you need to interact with the community in a positive way to gain the intelligence you need.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Community
  • Focus
  • Positive

• I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Like

• There are over 20 federal agencies that provide some, or all, of the steps in the export process. This can paint a very confusing and intimidating picture for small companies who often don't have designated export officials or trade representatives on staff to navigate the process for their businesses.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Picture
  • Process

• Hip-hop is all about impact, baby. You can sell records, you can be two-times platinum, you can be gold... but if you lame, you lame, man. We try to provide the exact opposite of that. It's style, individuality, confidence. We exude that.

  

  Wale
  • Man
  • Style
  • Confidence

• I've created my own career in my life, and I've had a lot of fun doing it. I think that's good.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Fun

• Drilling is risky because finding oil is only half the job. The real challenge is finding the money to pump the oil.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Real
  • Money
  • Job

• The waves of religion based on terrorism in the 1990s are based on the tormented response of a mutilated Muslim society whose progressive forces have been savagely emasculated. Why on earth is the Arab world so hostile to women? Why can it not see women as a force for development?

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • World
  • Women
  • Why

• Art gives us an opportunity to not have to leave or go somewhere or do something to experience the magic in our lives. It actually gets us to sit back and be where we are and recognize we're already magical.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Opportunity

• I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.

  

  Samantha Power
  • President
  • Face
  • Genocide

• I have lots of concerns at working with Russia going against ISIS until we have agreements in terms of what Russia's behavior is going to be.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Working
  • Behavior
  • Russia

• An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Door
  • Devil
  • Walk

• The sponsorship offers have been amazing. I have to turn down a lot.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Amazing
  • Down
  • Turn

• There are two words for everything.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Words
  • Everything
  • Two

• A lot of times what happens is, not even just with child actors, but people in general, is they get so caught up in the now. The hot song, the hot TV show, the hot movie. You're not saying 'OK, this is cool, but where am I trying to be 20 years from now?' That's always been in the forefront of my mind.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• There is a basic idea to this fighting spirit: that there are standards worth devoting yourself to that are more important than your self-interest.

  

  John Dickerson
  • Important
  • Fighting

• Jackson Rathbone—he is a prankster. Constantly scaring people from behind, stuff like that.

  

  Michael Welch
  • People
  • Behinds
  • Pranksters

• But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.'

  

  Ari Fleischer
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• No one wants to know I set my alarm and get up 8, but I think it's too weird to sleep in too late.

  

  David Spade
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Weird

• There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

  

  Ben Mezrich