Clive Cussler Quotes
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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I'll sleep when I'm dead.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
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As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.
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I like the idea of sending my Aquazurra girls out with a lucky charm under their feet.
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It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
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Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.
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The core of my personality consists of many selves.
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Again, the American people expect us to do what they are doing. It's tightening the belt, it's learning how to do more with less. That's a reality today, and we've got to do that in order to get the private sector growing.
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I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescue. And I also like to fly into the backcountry, usually the Frank Church Wilderness in Idaho. I go with a group of friends, and we set up camp for about five days and explore little dirt strips and canyons.
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As far as friendships go, things change even without the fame. People start moving on. I have a few friends that are married and are starting to have kids and I'm like, 'Oh my goodness gracious - that's so insane.' I also have friends who are just doing their own thing, which is cool.
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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.
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My friends joke that I raised the Titanic and never left the Rockies.
