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When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.

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Vince Flynn
Age: 47 †
Born: 1966
Born: April 6
Died: 2013
Died: June 19
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I think the more avenues that open up when people want to publish, the better. Some of the authors that want to jump ship from the traditional houses and go on their own, you know what? Good luck. It's going to be a lot tougher than you think.
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I just look at what's going on in the world.
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It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
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I'm a big believer in free enterprise. If people want to try it, then go for it.
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No offence Mitch, but you look like s*****. I feel like s****
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People who think God is on their side are capable of the most inhumane acts. (Petrov)
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[He] saw communism for the sham that it was--a bunch of brutes who seized power in the name of the people, only to repress the very people they claimed to champion.
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One of the most talented writers out there is Brian Haig.
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It's what every writer needs: a daybed.
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Have you ever heard the phrase, it is better to keep your mouth closed and have people wonder if you are stupid than open it and remove all doubt? (Hakim al Harbi)
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And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences. Some of you are going to be a crappy football player, some of you are going to be a great mathematician. Whatever it is, accept each other's differences and help prop each other up.
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If you're not busy living, you're dying.
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I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn't stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school.
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A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.
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Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith)
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I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business--the most talented espionage novelist of our generation.
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I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house.
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...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.
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Anybody who knew me growing up calls me Vinny.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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