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Nelson DeMille Quotes

There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve.

Nelson DeMille

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: August 23, 1943

Topics

Long Understand Own Backyard English

If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.

John Ashcroft

Father Mother Cooperation Never Like

Many young people, many children, are being abused, being put down, being bullied because of their sexual orientation.

John Lewis

Children People Down Young Being

One person's barbarity is another person's civilisation.

Mary Beard

Person Civilisation Another

When I was a kid, I hated everything. I was really skinny, and I'd have a milkshake with an egg in it. Growing up, I ate, like, five different foods. I was not an adventurous eater. But as soon as I left home, that all changed and from that point on, I've been a pretty enthusiastic eater of new and strange food.

Mary Roach

Home Food Growing Up Egg Growing

I got my training here in Chicago at the Goodman School Of Drama, and a lot of my personal work is usually internal work and stuff. Everything else that goes on is icing on the cake - your wardrobe, your makeup, whatever else you have to do.

Michael Rooker

Work Training School Cake Makeup

Sometimes I don't feel like an actor. Sometimes I speak about it like it was another job, and then I go, 'Wait a minute - I am one!'

Michael Keaton

Job I Am Wait Speak Feel Sometimes

I was a vegetarian for 10 years and a pescetarian for eight. Then I woke up one day when I was 29 and craved red meat. I'm a big believer in listening to my body's cravings.

Chelsea Clinton

Day Red Listening Body One Day Meat

What's profound and exciting is the way young people are taking advantage of the fact that the Internet enables everyone to have a megaphone. It enables everyone to stand up and say, 'I deserve to be heard, and I demand that you listen.'

Chelsea Clinton

People Stand Up Stand Internet You

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

Bram Fischer

Will Oppression Hatred Majority

People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?'

Philip Green

Great Experience Effort People Go

The first question we would ask if aliens landed on this planet is not, 'What does this mean for the economy or jobs?' It would be, 'Are they friendly or unfriendly?'

Peter Thiel

Mean Question Ask First Economy

'Dating Game' wasn't social commentary, political analysis, Shakespearean-level drama or even blunt-force comedy. It was just the televised equivalent of meeting someone at a bar. But it appealed to our most basic Darwinian instinct: selecting a good mate. You can't go wrong when a show's premise is hard-wired into human DNA.

Seth Shostak

Good Dating Game Political Comedy