John Searles Quotes

People are often surprised that I am so upbeat. I'm always hearing, 'You're so light and funny, and your books are so dark and twisted.' There's a dichotomy. I like books that are dark and creepy. I don't control it - it's just what I gravitate toward.

John Searles

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FunnyLightI AmPeopleControlYou

Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money.

John McCarthy

WorkMoneyWork HardEnoughHard

When my book 'Rich Dad's Prophecy' was released in 2002, most financial newspapers and magazines trashed it because I discussed a looming stock market crash.

Robert Kiyosaki

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If you've ever had a brush with cancer, you're always thinking a pain might be something serious.

Ann Jillian

PainThinkingYouSeriousAlways

I know, in India, cricket is a religion, but I haven't had the time to follow it.

Shilpa Shinde

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Obama, he wouldn't have been in office without what happened to me and a lot of black people before me. He would never have been in that situation, no doubt in my mind. He would get there eventually, but it would have been a lot longer. So I am glad for what I went through. It opened the doors for a lot of people.

Rodney King

I AmPeopleMindMeBlackDoors

Our scribblings are usually not lyrics but whirrings, without colour or resonance, like the tone of an engine-wheel. I believe that the cause lies in the fact that when people write, they forget for the most part to dig deeply into themselves and to feel the whole import and truth of what they are writing.

Rosa Luxemburg

TruthPeopleWritingBelieveFeel

What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'

Ron Paul

WarSayingGoWayConservativeFull

Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it.

Jules Shear

WorkMeThreeDaysMeansRewriting

It really is amazing that some days you'll come out and you'll feel like you can beat anyone, and then some days you come out and you've got no confidence in the world, and you can't break an egg with a hammer.

Jason Day

ConfidenceAmazingWorldFeelYou

My children not only inspired me to reconsider what kind of eating animal I would be, but also shamed me into reconsideration.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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I've always been fascinated by real scientists - Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, and so many others - how they've come up with solutions to very complicated problems that nobody else can seem to figure out.

Christopher Lloyd

ProblemsComplicatedNobodyOthers

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Corrie Ten Boom

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