Barry Eisler Quotes

When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.

Barry Eisler

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Ernest Rutherford's 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry wasn't given for the nuclear power station - he wouldn't have survived that long - it was given for showing how interesting atomic physics could be.

Andre Geim

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I figured if I played in the no-man's land of intimacy, I would learn to be a performer.

Jeff Buckley

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You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally.

John Piper

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I might be a pretty earthy, crunchy girl, yes. There might be some crystals and Buddhas in my house. I may meditate and eat all green and compost... Yoga is a very regular part of my life.

Alysia Reiner

LifeGirlGreenMy LifeHouseEat

Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

WorldKnittingUse

I'm sick when I don't work for year or two.

Sophia Loren

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I'm a cinephile. I love foreign films; I love films that are really immersive.

Trevante Rhodes

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I have a voice coach, but only in so much as to make my voice stronger so I can sing for five nights a week, two hours.

Rod Stewart

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One of the many misconceptions about the blind is that they have greater hearing, sense of smell and sense of touch than sighted people. This is not strictly true. Their blindness simply forces them to recognize gifts they always had but had heretofore largely ignored.

Rosemary Mahoney

PeopleBlindTrueTouchSmellGifts

I would say 'woman' used to be a noun, and now it is a noun and also an adjective. And words change their functions in that way. It's one of the most common phenomena about words. They start as one thing, and they end up as something else.

Deborah Tannen

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My spray-tan woman is amazing. She comes to my house at 10 o'clock the night before a shoot. The results are so brown, flawless, and natural. It's just weird because my natural skin color is very white, almost whitish yellow.

Chrissy Teigen

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I've been on a lot of shows that I like, doing guest appearances and little things. I'm just trying to have fun with being retired.

Chuck Liddell

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