- Hit
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- Nov 07, 2020
End Quotes
How things end - in war, in careers, in conscience.
This collection leans heavily historical, comparing a lost war to a chess endgame and recalling a family home destroyed during World War II. For quotes specifically about final outcomes and results, see End Result quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nature of design is to synthesize disparate perspectives and create a richer end product through collaboration and iteration.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.
- Nov 07, 2020
There's a reason women are pregnant for nine months; by the end, you're ready to have this baby.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we do at the end of every season - which is why it's probably not the greatest idea to talk about things in the visitor's locker room after the final game - we sit down and have real serious conversations with all of the senior people.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Enron and 9/11 marked the end of an era of individual freedom and the beginning of personal responsibility.
- Emerged
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge.
- Nov 07, 2020
The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed.
- Conducting
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- Nov 07, 2020
People still call me the eternal amateur. After all, professionals are supposed to be able to conduct everything. But I can't unless I feel some connection inside. Conducting is not an end in itself for me.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the type of person who far prefers a vacation filled with trips to museums and art galleries, shopping and exploring vintage flea markets, people-watching at cafes, and discovering delicious restaurants as opposed to lounging on a beach for days on end.
- Costing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Donald Trump is right. We need to figure out a way to end this cycle of hostility that's putting this country at risk, costing us billions of dollars in defense, and creating hostility that should not exist.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't enjoy putting my characters through hell unless there's a reason. I don't use violence or anything just for shock value. They're always a means to an end.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a big fan of introducing a bunch of new mysteries into a story without really knowing where they're going because you just end up struggling at the end to make sense of them and make it all seem like you planned it all along.
- Commercially
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- Nov 07, 2020