Jeff Giles Quotes

'Bottle Rocket' is an underdog.

Jeff Giles

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I think I would have been a writer, anyhow, in the sense of having written a story every now and then, or continued writing poetry. But it was the war experience and the two novels I wrote about Vietnam that really got me started as a professional writer.

Joe Haldeman

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There was no measure that required greater caution or more severe scrutiny than one to impose taxes or raise a loan, be the form what it may. I hold that government has no right to do either, except when the public service makes it imperiously necessary, and then only to the extent that it requires.

John C. Calhoun

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People think of fortune cookies as being Chinese, but in essence, they are fundamentally American.

Jennifer Lee

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Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Robert Staughton Lynd

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Everyone on the founding team ought to invest the time in a coding bootcamp.

Steve Blank

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Thus, the questions we should ask here are what makes the current economic upswing different from the past two recoveries, and whether such differences are sufficient for the economy to reach the sustained growth path.

Toshihiko Fukui

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Lived religion is a very different thing from strict textual analysis. Very few people of any faith live their lives as literalist interpretations of scripture.

Mohsin Hamid

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I really like research.

Miranda Otto

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The music that I've had out so far was obviously very pop, but when I signed with Hollywood Records, I was like, 'I know that's the music you're familiar with, but that's not what I want to sing. I want to do country.' They were on board with it!

Lucy Hale

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When I'm going to do something, I go all in.

Christina Tosi

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My brother was the one who really gave me the desire to follow in his footsteps. Also, it was really Ronaldinho and Ronaldo, the two Brazilian players, who also inspired me to a future in football.

Anthony Martial

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We have witnessed a stunning reversal of power between mainstream and social media: The ability to go direct to end users of information through social channels radically disrupted the mainstream news agenda.

Richard Edelman

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