Richard Preston Quotes

A football player is often bigger than a basketball player - more massive, that is. The basketball player is taller and more slender. So it is with redwoods. The tallest redwoods are often slender, and so they aren't the largest ones.

Richard Preston

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We need a hit, so here I go.

Joe DiMaggio

GoNeedHereHit

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.

Joe Elliott

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It's always been a struggle to differentiate myself, but I like my parents. I enjoy doing events with them, and I don't feel I should purposely avoid something just for the sake of being different.

Jesse Kellerman

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I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

John Hawkes

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Your life can change in a moment, depending if the ball goes in.

Alvaro Morata

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Getting things straight in your head is a major achievement because there's so much clutter out there. You've got to push aside the static to really hear the music.

Steve Wynn

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I never go out during the day without sunglasses.

Tory Burch

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There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.

Dieter Rams

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I was so intent as a young lawyer on beating the men at their own game that I didn't take any real maternity leave with my three younger children. It is only looking back that I realise I wasn't beating the system but reinforcing it.

Cherie Blair

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Peggy Atwood, Alice Munro, Hugh Hood, Michael Ondaatje - these are all old friends from my early 20s.

Clark Blaise

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There's so much free material on the Internet you can learn from, and some people are pure self-starters: they pick up computers and teach themselves everything. Certainly there are millions of people like that. But at the same time, I think it's a pretty small percentage of the population.

Tyler Cowen

TimePeopleSmallComputersThink

When people have hearing loss, I think they often take that burden and pass it on to their friends and family, and we make them scream and yell at us so we can hear! But I think it's better to take responsibility and wear hearing aids!

Norm Crosby

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