Clive Cussler Quotes
People have said I belong in a rubber room because I look for wrecks, and when I find them, I just do a survey. I don't look for treasure or artifacts.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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I was proud to have been the anti-establishment candidate after more than twenty years in politics, a small town guy fighting for the ordinary Canadian.
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The focus of 'Flower' is emotion and to make you feel peaceful.
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We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.
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In 2002 and 2003, the Bush administration decided against bombing Zarqawi's camp in northern Iraq because it might derail plans to depose Saddam Hussein. By focusing on Zarqawi in his speech at the United Nations, Secretary of State Colin Powell inadvertently spread his fame throughout the Arab world.
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I hate it when girls act stupid ’cause they think it’s cute. Intelligence is sexy.
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People have said I belong in a rubber room because I look for wrecks, and when I find them, I just do a survey. I don't look for treasure or artifacts.
