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 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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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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It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
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The core of my personality consists of many selves.
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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.
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Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.
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I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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Events are not a matter of chance.
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Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.
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It's nice to be able to do more and to always challenge myself.
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There is something sad about malevolence, to be wicked. I have always tried to make that come across in the villains I have played.
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I love kids and children, and I love being a mom.
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It's more like it is now than it ever has been.
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My friends joke that I raised the Titanic and never left the Rockies.
