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Hilaire Belloc Quotes

The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: english
Birth: July 27, 1870 - July 16, 1953

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Small You Him Out Take Cannot

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

Society Still Ways Lot Puritanical

In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library stacks to see where my novels would eventually be filed. It was right after someone named Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. So I grabbed a Vonnegut book, 'Breakfast of Champions' and immediately fell in love.

Love School Breakfast Book Library

I'm a product of the 1970s, so I have a short attention span. You know, I grew up on cartoons and half-hour shows. So the stories that I'm interested in grab my attention very quickly, and they have to keep my attention.

Short Attention You Know Product Up

As a fluke, my great-grandfather hit one of the largest oil reserves in California.

Oil California Hit Great-Grandfather

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

Demons You Accept Your Simply Part

Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.

Know Want Privilege Everything Being

I love writing in compressed time periods because the act of survival in the midst of panic and fear, that's where true heroism comes. If you have a uniform, and you're expected to do things, it's a sort of incremental heroism.

Peter Landesman

Love Fear Time Writing Survival You

If you're going to be successful, you better have a goal, you better find really good people, better understand where all the money's coming from. And you better measure the living daylights out of it.

Good Money People Better Good People

That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts.

Music Great People Mission Kind Try

Don't get me started on Americans and war. One of the things I learnt over in Italy is how they mythologised the war so that it's all good old gung-ho guys from Omaha and ignored everyone else's role.

Good War Me Old Over Everyone

If I hear, 'Be afraid of Tehran,' I'm like, 'I'd better go to Tehran.'

Better Go Afraid Like Hear Tehran

Free speech rights means that government officials are barred from creating lists of approved and disapproved political ideas and then using the power of the state to enforce those preferences.

Glenn Greenwald

Power Government Ideas Free Speech

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