H. W. Brands Quotes

The more of my readers I encounter who say, often apologetically, that they are actually listeners, the more I write for the ear rather than the eye. Small things like identifying speakers in dialogue rather than relying on paragraphing to mark the shifts.

H. W. Brands

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Entering 2015, the coal industry clearly continues to face significant challenges.

Joe Craft

ChallengesFaceClearlyIndustry

I work hard. I focus on myself and putting food on my dinner table before anything else. I don't worry about other artists. Worrying about the next person in a negative way is the wrong way to be.

Meek Mill

WorkMyselfFoodFocusDinnerWorry

I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life.

Jeffrey Archer

LifeMenPeopleEvilChanceThree

I didn't grow up listening to him - my parents listened more to Neil Young and Joni Mitchell - but I lived in a flatshare for two years, and my flatmate loved Leonard Cohen. He would always play him when he got home from the studio or something.

Sigrid

HomeParentsListeningLovedGrow

I never write about a place I don't know.

Ruth Rendell

PlaceKnowNeverWriteAbout

We always think about illegal stuff moving through the border south to north, but people forget that most guns - and we're not talking small guns, we're talking heavy weapons - they get to the cartels and create literally small armies out of the cartels.

Luis Videgaray Caso

PeopleMovingSmallBorderThink

I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.

Juan Cole

SpeakReadUrduPersianQuiteToo

While farmers' markets are booming in cities, actual rural market towns are in decline.

Jasmine Guinness

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I do not want my name to be presented to the public as an Indian, but as a pitcher.

Chief Bender

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I have definitely refocused Lowercase Capital on later-stage deals and my existing portfolio.

Chris Sacca

PortfolioCapitalDealsExisting

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

Winston Churchill

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One of my fears is not writing. I don't know how to do anything else.

Paul Theroux

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