Clive Cussler Quotes

I was driving by an auto auction one day, and they were auctioning off a beautiful Hispano-Suiza. I started bidding even though I hadn't even signed up with the officials. The last bid was $50,000, and it was mine. And I thought, 'My God, what have I done? I've never spent more than $500 in my life.' That was the first one.

Clive Cussler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 15, 1931

Topics

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The first girl I kissed was a suburbanite.

Jeremy Sisto

GirlFirstKissed

There were lots of smart black people at Harvard before Barack Obama, but none of them ever got to head up the law review. There has been a history of discrimination.

Andrew Young

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That sacred space of conscience where you can exercise your rights in terms of religious freedom and deeply-held, reasonable beliefs is the core of human dignity. In fact, that's the basis for civilization itself. And when you lose that fundamental principle... you have no basis on which to build.

Jeff Fortenberry

FreedomSpaceExerciseYouLose

I can play, it's not even a question, man. But, you know, sometimes you don't get in the game, man. What are you going to do? I'm not going to be upset; I'm going to support.

Metta World Peace

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My advice to actors? To successful actors, it's, 'sock it away,' and unsuccessful actors, it's just, 'Just keep at it. Don't do it unless you have to do it, and if you have to do it, keep - you've got to keep your instrument in shape.' You just got to keep on getting better. If you're not getting better, you're standing still.

Stephen Lang

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It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.

Stephen Breyer

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One day, I received a mail from a female fan saying she had named a star after me. She even mailed me the certificate for it!

Sidharth Malhotra

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My coaches have done a good job of tightening my skills, where I can dictate a little bit more where the fight is going.

Robbie Lawler

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St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return.

Rowan Williams

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I don't think boldness should be associated with showing off skin. It's not the basis of boldness.

Mira Nair

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It was no accident that just minutes after Israel became a nation, the United States... became the first nation in the world to recognize what was prophesized throughout the Old Testament about Israel returning after its absence.

Louie Gohmert

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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Joseph Campbell

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