Rickson Gracie My uncle and my father had the intention to create a clan of fighters and, in order to do that, they couldn’t be limited to one relationship and two or three kids. – Rickson Gracie Clan Quotes Create Quotes Father Quotes Fighters Quotes Intention Quotes Kids Quotes Limited Quotes Relationship Quotes Uncle Quotes My entire life I was son of Margarida Gracie when, in reality, I was surprised that’s not a fact. People think just because you get slapped on your butt and start to cry when you’re born, you know how to breathe and stay alive.
Amy WaldmanImagination Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character’s actions or lines are truer than others. – Amy Waldman
Mark Helprin Freeing’ a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to the executives and stockholders of various businesses who will continue to profit from, for example, ‘The Garden Party,’ while the descendants of Katherine Mansfield will not. – Mark Helprin
Ed Greenwood I am thrilled to get the chance to write comics – and to tell Forgotten Realms tales, to boot! – Ed Greenwood
Brad Feld When we raised the first Foundry Group fund in 2007, we took over 100 first meetings. We told our story several hundred times. As part of it was a slide called ‘Strategy.’ I still repeat the elements of that slide regularly, a decade later, as our core strategy has not changed. – Brad Feld
Auberon Herbert I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time. – Auberon Herbert
Avigdor Lieberman Friendly governments do not act so as to undermine the national security of their friends, and do not presume to know better than their friends how they should contend with the many challenges they face. The Swedish government would do well to rethink its intention to act in this way towards its friend Israel. – Avigdor Lieberman
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