Jack London Quotes
It was patent that this terrible man was no ignorant clod, such as one would inevitably suppose him to be from his exhibitions of brutality. At once he became an enigma.
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I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
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I am very amazed by the runners out there because I like jog to the garbage can outside sometimes, and I get tired.
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My motto has always been that you can't say, 'Oh, it won't happen to me.' You have to say, 'That can happen to me.' So always be aware that things can happen.
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The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The point is not necessarily to find your voice, which grinds out the same sort of thing again and again, but to find a vehicle for people who are far more important than the author: the characters.
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Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.
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People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.
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On the whole, I have quite a low opinion of men.
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'It is easy to judge evil unmixed,' replied Gwydion. 'But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.'
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The deep in me is everything. But it is everything without me. Because everything that is deep, is only everything.
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Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.
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I went to L.A. to be a drummer in a band.
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Some critics say I spent too much time on politics. I don't put much stock in the critics.
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There's a long relationship between science fiction and the 'novel of ideas,' and I think writers of science fiction are able to draw on that tradition to take risks, to constantly raise the level of their ambition.
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Scripts that make characters a two-sentence description, I'm not interested in.
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Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.
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Artificial lighting, air-conditioning, and automobiles, all powered by fossil fuels, swaddle us in our giddy modernity. In our ergonomic chairs and acoustical-panel cubicles, we sit cozy as kings atop 300 years of flaming carbon.
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When American troops find themselves fighting for their lives, there is no better sound than an A-10 - a plane officially nicknamed the Thunderbolt II but known affectionately by the troops as the Warthog - firing its enormous 30-millimeter gun at the enemy.
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Small ball, spacing, shooting 3s, is something that everybody's trying to do.
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If you're on the right side of the issue, just keep driving until you hear glass breaking. Don't quit.
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I always think - when I get mad, and people say, 'Don't be the angry black woman' - it's like, well, why not? There's so much to be angry about.
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I was happy to be in Afghanistan, doing these real-world operations and taking the fight to the terrorists that attacked us.
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My solo albums were each like a half-finished puzzle; they represented only the beginning of a full picture. Simply put, they were inadequate and incomplete.
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I'm so lucky that 'The Vampire Diaries' happened. I'm so lucky that Warner Bros. pays me money. You have no idea. I should be on a fishing boat with my dad.
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It was patent that this terrible man was no ignorant clod, such as one would inevitably suppose him to be from his exhibitions of brutality. At once he became an enigma.
