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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Take away from the courts, if it could be taken away, the power to issue injunctions in labor disputes, and it would create a privileged class among the laborers and save the lawless among their number from a most needful remedy available to all men for the protection of their business interests against unlawful invasion.... The secondary boycott is an instrument of tyranny, and ought not to be made legitimate.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
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Everyone makes moral choices that better themselves and hurt someone else along the way - and whether or not the means justify the ends. And that, to me, is universal.
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Normally I'm not like a big TV person. I never use my DVR.
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There's no literary merit in my books.
