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Douglas Preston Quotes

My hobbies are mountain biking, horseback riding and packing, canoeing and kayaking, hiking, camping, cooking, and skiing.

Douglas Preston

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: May 20, 1956

Topics

Cooking Mountain Skiing Hobbies

It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.

Life Hero Impossible Know Nothing

To copy Nature? A boy with a camera can do that. To get the spirit of Nature? A woodman or a shepherd can follow the trail of the whistling wind to hoarded sunshine in distant wolds. But to interpret Nature and inform it with a human personality that rises above it, invokes the divine in it, is the work of genius.

Work Nature Sunshine Personality Boy

With journalism, films always have to be to do with some personal statement of your own. As a general rule, I resist that. In the States, a question that kept coming up was this: 'How can you, as a man, talk about three women?'

Women Man You Journalism Personal

Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.

Roland Emmerich

Worst Knows Everybody Nations

Being an American musician means being adventurous.

Michael Tilson Thomas

American Adventurous Being Means

Game by game is how I judge myself. At the end of the season, yeah, I do look back and think about how many games I've been available for, how many goals I've scored, how I've contributed. But that's what the summer's for. For now, you just look to the next one.

Goals Myself Game Think End Judge

Social media, for me, is just a thorn in my side. It's painful. For us in crisis, it has totally changed the way we do business. It's a big, big game changer.

Business Social Media Me Game Media

It was just this crazy craziness, and the fact that it was shot in Paris, and it had these incredible people in it. It was an easy thing to say yes to.

People Crazy Easy Paris Say Yes

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

Problem Important Overcome Emotion

The richest Indonesians have maybe $5 billion. Bill Gates has $50 billion.

Richest Billion Gates Maybe Bill

Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.

Worst Celibacy Form

Hold on to your passion - you'll need it!

Passion You Need Hold Your

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