Clive Cussler Quotes

I honestly thought I probably did sell 100 million books. That doesn't seem out of the ordinary to me.

Clive Cussler

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• The lens of contract focuses predominantly on gains from trade whereas orthodoxy is focused on resource allocation.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Trade
  • Contract
  • Lens

• But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Like
  • Better
  • Say

• Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • America
  • Two
  • Caribbean

• In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Past
  • Earth
  • Resources

• When I was in first grade, some psychologist told my mom if I didn't go to graduate school, she basically failed as a parent, because I had the aptitude to do it. Which is so dumb. Huge pressure!

  

  Cam
  • School
  • She
  • Mom

• It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Family
  • You
  • Name

• Quite simply, if you're feeling anxious, angry, a sense of shame, whatever it is, breathe in and agree to touch or feel it. Breathing out, offer space and care to whatever's there. If there's blocking to touching it, emphasize the in-breath and stay embodied.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Feeling
  • Space
  • Care

• What's really happening is that every bank in the country is experimenting with the blockchain and experimenting with bitcoin to figure out where the value is. For the first time ever, they're working hand in hand with startups. Banks are asking startups for help to build products.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Time
  • Country
  • Help

• At the Justice Department, we have no greater obligation than ensuring all people are treated equally under the law, and Americans must know that we will vigorously pursue criminal activity regardless of whether the crime is committed on a street corner or in a corner office.

  

  Sally Yates
  • People
  • Law
  • Justice

• Even as a child, I found a way to survive.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Way
  • Child
  • Survive

• As much as we love each other, there is some growing difficulty in my adult relationship with my father. Because we're both writers, we're having a very intimate conversation in a very public forum.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Relationship
  • Conversation
  • Difficulty

• I've always only wanted to model. It really is the only life I want.

  

  Paige Butcher
  • Life
  • Want
  • Always

• After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Long
  • Play
  • Start

• People were saying, 'He's worth £32m? He tried a back-heel and fell over!' Even I laughed. In my head, I said, 'OK, you've seen the bad side, now come see the good side'.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Rest

• My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Stop
  • Doctor

• I have, indeed, lived most of my life overseas, but I've returned repeatedly to work in film, special television productions, and the New York theater. There have also been tributes and similar occasions that have called me back to Hollywood. I've returned so often, I almost feel that I've never left.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Life
  • Work
  • New York

• I love the life of a musician but I live the life of a bodybuilder.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Life
  • Live
  • Musician

• Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Perfect
  • Matter
  • Impossible

• At the end of the day, Mr. Trump is going to have the last laugh.

  

  Corey Lewandowski
  • Trump

• Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Good
  • Work
  • Look

• Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Lies

• I honestly thought I probably did sell 100 million books. That doesn't seem out of the ordinary to me.

  

  Clive Cussler