Karl Marlantes Quotes
I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.
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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
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People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.
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I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one?
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Extending on his earlier comments in a press conference at NATO Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium (6 June 2002)
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Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.
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I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.
