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Robert Harris Quotes

The financial markets tend to be just a backdrop for a novel, for a heist or something that isn't necessarily integral to it. On the whole, I don't think the financial world has been well served by novels.

Robert Harris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: March 7, 1957

Topics

World Think Financial Something Well

The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government - alone among the governments of the world - will not allow its own people to recover the energy that they possess.

Jim Talent

Alone Government People World Energy

I grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in a six-room farmhouse with a couple of leaning posts to keep it from fallin'. I came up in a time when men were men.

Joe Frazier

Time Men Up Keep South Carolina

When I walked through the gate, Universal quit building actors. All of a sudden, I was doing leading roles. I knew I was a tyro, but they told me to shut up and act.

John Gavin

Me Building Doing Quit Gate Shut Up

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

Anita Hill

Me You Conscience Fail Did

More than any other place, New York is where I felt I belonged. I prefer the Lower East Side to any place on the planet. I can be who I am there, and I couldn't do that anywhere I lived as a child. I never fit in when I lived in California, even though that's where my roots are.

Jeff Buckley

I Am New York Child Roots I Can New

It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in 'The Practice' than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.

Michael Emerson

Power Practice People Me Reach Will

Nothing is less instructive than a machine.

Simone Weil

Nothing Machine Than Less

I think of the audience the way I would think of another person: You meet someone, then you take it from there; you see what's interesting to both of you.

Tracy Chapman

Think Interesting Someone You Person

Civilian law around aviation is much looser than those governing military. Civilian planes can basically fly wherever they want in the world.

Trevor Paglen

Law Fly World Want Military Than

I don't like the word 'satisfaction' - never have. I don't think I'll be satisfied with anything, really, to be honest.

Tom Coughlin

Think Satisfaction Never Anything

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Ronald Reagan

Freedom Children Generation Never

Esoteric or inner knowledge is no different from other kinds of human knowledge and ability. It is a mystery for the average person only to the extent that writing is a mystery for those who have not yet learned to write.

Rudolf Steiner

Knowledge Writing Mystery Person