Clive Cussler Quotes
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I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.
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The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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I haven't actually studied acting at all.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.
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To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.
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When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.
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We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.
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It's hard to mix with a crowd when you're walking down the hallway and everybody else is a foot shorter. I remember hanging out with my friends, like at the mall, and thinking people were staring at me and talking about me. It made me turn inside myself. I became more shy and quiet.
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I'll put my progressive credentials up against anyone's.
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President Obama has a good sense not just of the economic requisites for financial crisis firefighting but also how you build political support for moving forward on reforming the financial system, making sure that the banks are carrying enough capital.
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You have this enormous network and no one knows what's out there.
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Just-poached vegetables show off their natural attributes and taste fresh and light in a way you never get with roasting or frying.
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When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to survive the rigors of the camps I was in.
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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
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There's been about 75 movies about Jesse James, and I've seen about four of them. He's usually portrayed as this plucky rebel who's got no choice but to turn to crime, because the railway's hassling his mother. But he wasn't like that.
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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Steve set the tone for them and everyone else just followed.
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Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.
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I can't retire. My readers won't let me.
