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James Clavell Quotes

The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: australian
Birth: October 10, 1924 - September 7, 1994

Topics

Work Truth World Truth Is Search

Authority can be faked. That's why impersonating a police officer is a crime. Sometimes the outward appearances of authority can be deceiving.

Police Sometimes Authority Crime Why

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

Grief Words Deepest Fewest

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

Mother Attitude Health Reality Poor

For most of my childhood, I grew up in the countryside of England, where it was very suburban - there weren't a lot of people who were multicultural like my family. It was a place where the blonde and brunette girls in school were considered gorgeous. And because of that, I remember feeling like I wasn't good enough.

Family Good Childhood School People

I have enough music coming out of my kids' bedrooms when I'm at home.

Home Music Enough Out Coming Kids

Stories are the rich, unseen underlayer of the most ordinary moments.

Rich Moments Ordinary Most Stories

Actually, a lot of my influences were horn players. I really liked Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane and Miles Davis - people like that. My dad had a lot of those records. So when I started playing jazz primarily, it wasn't jazz guitar that I was listening to.

People Listening Guitar Jazz Playing

The only thing I've ever wanted in my life is to be a mom and a wife.

Life Wife Mom My Life Only Wanted

From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

History Society Learn You Know Get

I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are.

Joseph Stiglitz

Think Environment Seeing Too Much

We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop our eating from radiating influence even if we want to.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Influence Eating Stop Want Eat Even

Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.

Education Best People Solution Stop

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