Clive Cussler Quotes
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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I'm very open-minded.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.
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I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.
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I have only one real hobby - my husband.
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In India, we say one thing, and we do something else.
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For a quarter of a century, I've been playing baseball for pay. It has been pretty good pay, most of the time. The work has been hard, but what of it? It's been risky. I've broken both my legs. I've sprained everything I've got between my ankles and my disposition. I've dislocated my joints and fractured my pride.
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The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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The whole 'studly womaniser' thing, I mean, I quite enjoy the title - it's just not very accurate.
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Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.
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My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.
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I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.
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It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.
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I love eyebrows, so brow pencils and brow shadow are really important to me.
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I’ve been thinking about the war a lot recently, and I think I’ve decided it’s wrong. We are defeating ourselves in waging it, will destroy ourselves by winning it.
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The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization.... Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
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When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.
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Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams less than two pounds. I have a very heroic birth story.
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I'm always interested in something that's missing.
