Elizabeth Warren Quotes
Big corporations have money and power to make sure every rule breaks their way; people have voices and votes to push back.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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The best thing I can say is professional football is a business. When they are recruiting football players, they are not recruiting model citizens. Everybody has to be aware of this. What's being selected for the NFL is the ability to play and perform on Sunday afternoons. Everything else is secondary.
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My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
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There should be no censorship of mail.
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My characters are not plastic.
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I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
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There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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Sometimes the storyline is as simple as, 'We're just going to be the best, and we're going for the championships.
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Customers often value a good more when its price goes up. One reason may be its signaling value. An expensive handcrafted mechanical watch may tell time no more accurately than a cheap quartz model; but, because few people can afford one, buying it signals that the owner is rich.
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I think it's our job to create a culture and an environment where a gay player knows he is safe and welcome. If and when that happens, believe me - that person will have the full support of the commissioner's office.
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I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.
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While we can learn from U.S. models, we certainly can't practice them.
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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There was a time there in the mid '80s to the '90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year for a long time there.
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Luckily, I'm not a stand-up comedian, so I don't get the fear of standing on stage in front of a dead audience: my humorous pieces have to make it past an editor before they get exposed to the public.
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There are always losers when society evolves. In the free market, these losers are expected and encouraged to retrain and find new ways to survive and thrive.
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Big corporations have money and power to make sure every rule breaks their way; people have voices and votes to push back.
