James Patterson Quotes

What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.

James Patterson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 22, 1947

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We built Bonobos, with more than a few dozen customers and counting, and the industry we were disrupting didn't seem to care. Then we 'sold out' to Walmart. Abracadabra. The red carpet rolled open.

Andy Dunn

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I go to churches to pray, but I don't go to mass.

Andrea Corr

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We have lost our vision for the future. Before, we say, 'Nothing will be the same. Cars will fly, and we go to the end of the universe.' We have this kind of naive but exciting idea of the future. Now, the vision has been reduced to ways to select our garbage and how to survive global warming.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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As an entrepreneur and a small business owner, you are intimately familiar with goals. You've dreamed of the 'right' ones, you've projected 'real' ones for the banker and the investor, and, secretly, you've imagined how life can be if you can reach the ones you've set.

Michael Gerber

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I didn't excel too highly in school, but I felt that I was moving ahead - and not just in boxing - but in life.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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I've yet to see a correlation in my industry between great social media and great numbers.

Mickey Drexler

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I'm not sure whether it's going to be the downfall of Rome - social media. There are too many secrets.

Judy Sheindlin

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I like working. I like getting up every morning and going somewhere. Where I do it or what form doesn't matter.

Dennis Farina

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We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.

Clint Smith

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Sportswriters. They were all my friends. They were racetrack guys and so was I.

Art Rooney

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There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.

Atom Egoyan

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The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess.

Susan Sarandon

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