Kevin J. Anderson Quotes
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The art of life is to show your hand.
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I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.
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The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.
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I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
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I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.
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An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
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I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.
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Having to re-recruit, rehire, and retrain, and wait for a new employee to get up to speed is devastating in terms of cost.
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I've been engaged a couple times.
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Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.
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Chance explorations on search engines do not 'accidentally' lead users to extremist websites.
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Big productions, to me, are great - like, I love going to Vegas and seeing shows - but I think that sometimes it's distracting, especially when you are there to listen to the music.
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I've always been a really ambitious person.
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The first step is to fill your life with positive faith that will help you through anything. The second step is to start where you are.
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Everything in your life right now is a possible episode.
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I would like all my friends, followers, fans and fellow travelers to know that I am fighting cancer and will therefore be taking a break from performing while getting the treatment and cure. I shall of course be continuing to write music - in my world it just has to be part of the therapy - and I fully expect to be back in good shape next year.
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I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.
