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Rick Perlstein Quotes

I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: 1969

Topics

Nature Career Become Books Rather

It's always been hard work for us to manufacture in the U.K. It's not a particularly profitable place for us.

Work Hard Work Place Hard Always Us

We founded Palantir in 2003-2004 because we perceived a giant gap between how the defense and intelligence community was harnessing technology to achieve its goals and what we had seen was possible in Silicon Valley over the last decade.

Goals Technology Community Achieve

As I get older, I increasingly value free time that's completely free of appointments. Time to think, time to reflect, time to just hang out with my wife and kids.

Time Wife Value Free Think Out

I'd quit my job at a production company and was like, 'I'm going to be a writer...' I became a temp, and it was the mid-nineties, when there was the Internet boom, and the normal group of graduates ready to fill in didn't exist.

Jennifer Konner

Job Internet Ready Quit Group Going

I love the 'Underworld' movies because the vampires aren't automatically evil, yet neither are they basically humans with fangs.

Love Evil Movies Because Vampires

I consciously memorized the speed at which every pitcher in the league threw his fastball, curve, and slider. Then, I'd pick up the speed of the ball in the first 30 feet of its flight and knew how it would move once it has crossed the plate.

Feet Speed Flight First Ball Up

I'm not going to have a baby until I'm around 30-something.

Baby Going Around Until

I happen to like vampires more than zombies.

Martin Scorsese

More Happen Like Than Vampires

Convinced that behavior and conduct are every bit as important as skills and expertise, I sought to build the firm into an enduring, values-based institution.

Behavior Important Skills Build Firm

I ride a bike and use aerobic equipment twice a week, and work out with a trainer, lifting weights.

Work Ride Bike Week Out Twice

I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes singing the vocal or it will sound mechanical. There are always mistakes, but it's about feeling more than being perfect.

Mistakes Singing Perfect Feeling

Mandela is just the eternal man. You want that man to be around forever. It's the closest thing we have to God, I think. He's the father of mankind, almost.

Father God Man Think You Want

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