Richard Flanagan Quotes

Family matters, friends matter, love matters. Those you love and who love you matter. That's what writing does - it allows you to say all those things.

Richard Flanagan

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Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve the rapid and decisive response they received.

John Boehner

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When new cooks come to work for me, they obviously make mistakes at the beginning or there's some messiness to the presentation. What I always say to them is: 'If you were cooking this for your mother or your girlfriend, would you make those mistakes?'

Joel Robuchon

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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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When thinking through who to bring together to generate new ideas, it is more effective to combine specialists from very different and unrelated disciplines rather than a variety of people with different skills sets in the same field.

Simon Mainwaring

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In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank speech, above all other men, to him who is highest in authority. I shall speak to you as man to man.

Robert Dale Owen

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I had the 'War of the Worlds' comic book. I had lots of comic books.

Roky Erickson

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I voted Republican this year; the Democrats left a bad taste in my mouth.

Monica Lewinsky

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This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

Lord Byron

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Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

Josh Billings

DogGoodMoneyWillBuyPretty

I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.

Johnny Mathis

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It's hard for people to understand that when five or six guys are together working intensely, they can really get into some duels.

Dickey Betts

TogetherPeopleUnderstandHardGet

After high school in 1969, I was appointed to the Air Force Academy. In '73, I studied for my postgraduate degree and became a USAF pilot in 1974. After my discharge in 1980, I became a commercial pilot and flew my first airline flight at Pacific Southwest Airlines in 1980.

Chesley Sullenberger

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