Kerry Greenwood Quotes
As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am.
Quotes to Explore
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.
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The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressions and that I should be converted with my whole heart to the Lord my God.
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I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.
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Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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I have this necklace I always wear. I collect pendants from people I love; my best friends and members of my family have all given me one, and I put them on this chain so no matter where I am they're always with me.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
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It's time to level the playing field for small business owners and give them the same health care choices that large corporations have. Because they don't have as many employees, they have little ability to negotiate lower rates.
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As champions of green jobs, we're asking questions that progressives should like, like "How are we going to avoid baking the planet," and "How are we going to create jobs for ordinary Americans?" Meanwhile, we're offering solutions that conservative should like. I'm not calling for more welfare; I'm calling for more work.
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I believe it to my soul that you're the devil in nylon hose, for the harder I worker the faster my money goes.
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I think the first thing I did when I was a kid was a Maxwell House Coffee commercial with George Strait. And I did a Wrangler Jeans commercial, and then 'The Patriot' came to town.
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One thing they don't have out here in California is Rita's Italian Ices. We used to have one right next to our house and it was so good!
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As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am.
