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Robert McCloskey Quotes

It was more exciting to get that first book published, I think.

Robert McCloskey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: September 14, 1914 - June 30, 2003

Topics

Book Think More First Get Exciting

If the Karmabanque hasn't worked, it's because there isn't yet a critical mass of people who are prepared to fight back and who instead prefer to be victims.

Fight People Back Because Critical

I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.

Life Death World Think End Wish

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

I Am Think Appearance Own Take Who

My concern is that we live in an economy in which stabbing someone and waiting for them to complain before we remove the knife has become the normal way of doing business. When did we lose sight of the fact that it's not nice to stab people in the first place?

Live Business Waiting People Doing

Liberal democracies do not and often cannot respond in kind to cyberattacks on their own way of governance.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Kind Way Respond Governance Own

Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Sound Right Suffrage Principle

As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.

Keep Pushing Journalists

I never knew anyone who was cloned, but I played one in 'Multiplicity.'

Never Who Knew Played Anyone

My process is I try to learn my lines so they're so solid I don't have to think about them or how I'm going to say them.

Think Process Learn Say Try Going

In America, people know there are always 10 people better than them who are after their job. In France, they know that too - but no one is going to get their job till they go to their grave.

Janine di Giovanni

Job People Better America Go Know

I prefer natural hardwood lump charcoal - the other stuff makes your food taste like Goodyear tires.

Food Taste Tires Natural Your Stuff

Economic theory dictates that the value of a company is basically the present value of its future profits. To estimate Facebook's value through its future profits, we need to have a view on its user growth and how this will evolve in the next 10 to 50 years.

Didier Sornette

Growth Future Value Present View

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