Clive Cussler Quotes
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The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.
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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
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This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.
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I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.
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I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.
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I love the romance of 'let's get married,' but then, when you have it so perfect... I mean, I'm more married than anybody can be - we have two kids. Maybe one day, but it's something I can really do without.
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I just write mechanical things.
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And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now.
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President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.
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I worked with a couple of chocolate Labradors, which were a lot of fun. Very excitable. They're cute.
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The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.
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I've never dated anyone in Hollywood - or anyone famous, for that matter. I don't know that I'm ever gonna write a song that you will know who it's about.
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There is something about guns that inhibits understanding. It is not just that they can put an end to argument. They somehow generate beliefs that are obviously contrary to observable fact.
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I'm completely neurotic, totally anxious and high-strung all the time.
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One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.
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A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.
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Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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Imagination is the manipulation of images in one's head... the rational manipulation... as well as the literary and artistic manipulation.
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So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.
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Some say, why will people pay for cinema when they can watch cheaper DVDs at home? But I say, everyone has a kitchen at home, yet there are still many restaurants.
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We have access to practical, ethical and scientifically established methods of birth control. So I think that is the most ethical way to reduce our population.
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I had horrible experiences in Hollywood.