Dan Brown Quotes
I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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The secret of my success with Geraldine is that she's not a putdown of women. She's smart, she's trustful, she's loyal, she's sassy.
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Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
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People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
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I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.
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The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.
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Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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I'm not the kind of person that seeks out other people's opinions on my works.
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It was the late Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar who, by founding the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, made it possible for the scientific aspirations of my early years to continue burning brightly.
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Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.
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Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I was so motivated and thought that if I did I wouldn't succeed.
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Translation is not original creation - that is what one must remember. In translation, some loss is inevitable.
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I've lost count of the plane tickets I've had in my pocket for people's weddings and other celebrations which I've had to tear up because I was making a film. How many things like that can you miss and still be in people's lives?
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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
