Erik Larson Quotes

For 'Thunderstruck', I discarded about a dozen ideas. And then one afternoon, I was thinking about wireless. I don't know why. I guess because it's become so ubiquitous. I was thinking that maybe there's something I could do about the origin of wireless, so I did what any self-respecting person does these days: I Googled 'wireless.'

Erik Larson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 3, 1954

Topics

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Here in Denver, we want to thank Jeremy Jacobs for the way he runs his business. Otherwise, we wouldn't have gotten Ray Bourque and won a Stanley Cup.

Joe Sakic

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I have been blind. I have been paralyzed. But each day, if I wake up, then I know He's left me here for a reason, and I have to say yes. And I have to get up. And I have to make the best of that day.

Jennifer Holliday

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I'm certainly not in the business of making anything or anyone seem avant-garde. I make them feel beautiful.

Jenny Packham

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The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.

Andrew J. Bernstein

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Everyone posts everything in real time as it happens.

John Cho

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I would say raising capital is one of the weakest things for most entrepreneurs.

Robert Kiyosaki

SayThingsCapitalWouldMost

I don't go to fancy Michelin-starred restaurants often.

Mary Berry

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If, at the end of my mandate, all Brazilians have the possibility to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner, I will have fulfilled the mission of my life.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

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No man-made system is perfect, and the system of oppression is no exception. It is subject to fatigue, to cracks, which you are the likelier to discover the longer your term.

Joseph Brodsky

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If the only people we are able to extend empathy to are those who are like us, who come from the same country we do, or who share our faith, then we misunderstand what empathy is.

Clint Smith

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I worked for a couple of screamers in my early days in Hollywood. I don't like being screamed at, and I am not myself a screamer.

Brian Grazer

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There have been a couple of things I've been involved in launching that have been a bit more public, but I've always had other things tipping away in the background.

Brian O'Driscoll

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