Ken Follett Quotes
Most of my stories have some basis in fact.
Ken Follett
Quotes to Explore
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We don't have a public that really understands the world anymore, and in the age of complexity, that problem becomes much more difficult.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?
Han Suyin
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As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.
Hal Sparks
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One of my top tips for aspiring entrepreneurs: Tell everyone you know about your idea. This runs contrary to the instinct that most people have, because they're afraid someone is going to 'steal my ideal.' Ideas alone are worth very little; it's in the execution and market feedback that companies are made.
Aaron Patzer
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They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.
Hamid Karzai
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I love to put on diamonds and beautiful evening gowns and make my girl-friends upset.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
Garry Winogrand
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Macho does not prove mucho.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician of any kind of caliber, your holy grail was to be in that orchestra. It was that claim to fame of the school, of the town, other than the university. But it was better than the university band.
Damien Chazelle
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Standing on the bare ground, - my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A buzzard took the monkey for a ride in the airThe monkey thought that everything was on the squareThe buzzard tried to throw the monkey off his backBut the monkey grabbed his neck and said - 'Now listen, Jack...' 'Straighten up and fly rightStraighten up and fly rightStraighten up and fly rightCool down, papa, don't you blow your top.'
Nat King Cole
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The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell ain't half full.
Cormac McCarthy