Clive Cussler Quotes
Matthew's all right. Originally, I wanted Errol Flynn, but McConaughey should be good as Dirk Pitt.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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I love anything to do with history.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
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I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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We started Airbnb because, like many across the U.S. and in New York, we were struggling to pay our rent and decided to open up our living room to fellow artists coming to town for a design conference. Sharing our apartment allowed us to stay in our home and start our company.
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The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
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Africa's risks are mainly perceived and not real. Unfortunately for us in Africa we are not really very good at telling our own story. But things are changing and people are beginning to understand that things are going very, very well.
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I said I'm the president of Iraq... I did not say deposed.
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Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.
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Matthew's all right. Originally, I wanted Errol Flynn, but McConaughey should be good as Dirk Pitt.
