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Barry Eisler has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on the task,…
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I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead.
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The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement,
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From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but…
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The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost catches it.
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal…
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The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.
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The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that…
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The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for…
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Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.
— Conrad Black
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As a matter of international law, the United States is in an armed conflict with al-Qa'ida, the Taliban, and associated forces, in…
— John O. Brennan
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I only direct in self-defense.
— Mel Brooks
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My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.
— Fred Allen
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but…
— Barry Eisler
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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
— Bill Moyers
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The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
— Ida B. Wells
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We all recognize that Colorado and our nation have a long and storied tradition of gun ownership for hunting, outdoor recreation and…
— Mark Udall
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When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.
— Stephen L. Carter
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy…
— Ed Gillespie
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All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have…
— Steven Erikson
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