Clive Cussler Quotes
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Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.
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The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.
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I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement.
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People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.
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There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure.
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I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.
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I can't think of any shows I've watched about teenagers that has the same spirit that 'Skins' has, the same honesty about it.
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They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.
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As an author, you're really grateful for the people who are supporting you, but on some other level, that can be a dangerous echo chamber.
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I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.
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The United States is no longer first in the world in upward mobility. We can reverse that trend by giving our young children an equal start in life as they begin their journey to fulfill the American Dream.
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It's easy to show terrible people's behavior on screen, and we all just kind of nod and go, 'Isn't that terrible.' It's more interesting when you can show terrible behavior in the interest of something good.
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If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.
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I'm too disorganized.
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People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.
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My music is jazz.
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You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.
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I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?
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People who hardly ever cook at all, suddenly at the holidays, feel like it's their responsibility to not only cook dinner for large groups of people suddenly, but to serve things that are fussy or fancy or formal. And I don't think that's what anybody really wants, especially if you're not good at it.
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The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.
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Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
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Public disapproval is the price I pay for writing about the royals.
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You need a continuous picture of how things are evolving, and not a slow series of snapshots where you don't know how frame A is related to frame B.
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There's no literary merit in my books.
