Rand Beers Quotes

Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.

Rand Beers

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Anyone who wants bookstores to survive is portrayed as a Luddite who goes around smashing up Kindles.

John Connolly

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Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action like to say, 'Those who can, do, those who can't, teach,' forgetting that those who teach get to write the history books.

Michael Ignatieff

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While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.

Rita Mae Brown

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I didn't actually have a prom. In Australia, we call them 'socials,' which is hilarious. I did always find them pretty awkward, because I went to an all-girls school.

Robin McLeavy

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We're gonna try to have the baby a little while before we name it. We don't want to put it out there, like try and turn him into something before we meet the kid. We want to get a feel for who this kid is before we name him.

Jared Padalecki

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There is a force of exultation, a celebration of luck, when a writer finds himself a witness to the early morning of a culture that is defining itself, branch by branch, leaf by leaf, in that self-defining dawn, which is why, especially at the edge of the sea, it is good to make a ritual of the sunrise.

Derek Walcott

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I've always preferred a 4-3-3. It's a more fluid and dynamic system, and I think it plays to my strengths better.

Christen Press

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You can create some soul out of something that's electronic or mechanical.

Brendon Urie

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Part of any acquisition process is what's loosely called 'due diligence.' Taking both technical and legal forms, it's the snooping around an acquiring company does to make sure it's actually getting what it thinks it is.

Antonio Garcia Martinez

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If I train well and stay focused, I'm confident I can deliver when the time comes.

Ashley Wagner

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I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.

William Gibson

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I can't imagine living and not running.

Paula Radcliffe

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