"I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as forbidden knowledge: methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know."

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Source : "For Barry Eisler, when it rains, it pours". Interview with Mark Schreiber, www.japantimes.co.jp. September 7, 2003.

Barry Eisler

#Thinking Quotes #Government Quotes #Long Quotes

“the person in this picture is really me.”
“Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.”
“Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.”

Source : David Low (1956). “Autobiography”, London : M. Joseph
“there are scores of thousands of women who are denominated prostitutes, and who are supported by hundreds of thousands of men who should, for like reasons, also be denominated prostitutes, since what will change a woman into a prostitute must also necessarily change a man into the same.”
“It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.”
“The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.”
“Obstacles don't have to stop you.”
“I love highlighting. A good highlighter works on everyone.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com

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