Jason Kander Quotes

The secret to adulthood is that 99% of the time, you actually know the right thing to do. Adults make it hard when they are deciding whether to do the right thing.

Jason Kander

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TimeDo The Right ThingYouKnow

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

Jimmy Carter

FailureFearDeterminedFail

Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie March' here. But I love writing about Chicago, and I love being there and imagining lives in Chicago. I hope to set something there in the future, but it's intimidating.

John Green

LoveFutureHopeTimeWritingEasy

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

Meghan O'Rourke

LifeKnowledgeHistoryUnderstanding

They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.

John Millington Synge

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So the president set out the policy guidance and said it had to take place in a multilateral fashion so that other countries in the region could be invested in the success of this process.

Mitchell Reiss

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If I were not able anymore to come to the lab, that's retirement. Or if I had no more ideas of things. Every year, there's something new that comes along that's too exciting to quit.

Mildred Dresselhaus

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When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions.

Louis Sachar

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Today we take New England clam chowder as something traditional that makes our roots as American cooking very solid, with a lot of foundation. But the first person who decided to mix potatoes and clams and bacon and cream, in his own way 100 to 200 years ago, was a modernist.

Jose Andres

TodayCookingRootsFoundationNew

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

Dick Clark

TruthHumorYouAlwaysJokeAbout

With my earlier books, I got quite bored being with one protagonist all the way through. With the Alex Morrow books, I wanted to do something a bit more holistic, so there were lots of different points of view, and I wanted to look at aspects of crime that you don't tend to look at.

Denise Mina

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I'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really that simple.

Anthony Horowitz

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The industry and support in China has really matured because there are so many productions there. At the same time, there's been a lot of changes in the market, which I think also has enabled productions like 'The Grandmaster' to happen and to be possible to shoot in China.

Wong Kar-wai

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