Deborah Harkness Quotes
I couldn't resist hiding some historical details and a few clues relevant to the plot and characters of 'A Discovery of Witches' throughout the pages of the novel.
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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In Cuba, I would start the first two months hitting around .260 with three or four home runs. After the first half of the season, I would get hot, and that's when I would have my best results.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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One of my major objectives is to build a long-term enterprise, to build shareholder value over time.
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I have struggles in screenwriting that lead me to a third act that's always more or less efficiently wrapped up in a fourth act that's trying to give closure to too many things.
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My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
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I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.
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I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.
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The IronClad is faster than most thumb drives but far slower than a standard hard drive. Boot up, application launch and other Windows operations feel sluggish, though still usable.
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We set up a small bitcoin and ethereum mining operation... that miraculously now is actually making a lot of money.
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I'd rather share the glory of a hit than star by myself in a flop.
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I'm not a big planner; I decide by intuition.
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I am interested in how human beings react to crisis and conflict.
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And the supreme glory of all this, my love, is to think that maybe this isn't true, neither may I believe it true.And when lying starts giving us pleasure, let's speak the truth so that we lie to it.
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I do not know Tyrone Power. I fucked him a lot, but I do not know him. Gentlemen, this meeting is over.
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When men in relationships have more money, we say they have the power. When women in relationships have more money, we say they are being used.
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I really don't think that Detroit was any different than New York of Boston or Philadelphia. Kids always wanted to listen to music outside because that's where they hung out with their friends.
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For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of inevitability, the assumption that different outcomes lay beyond the limits of the possible.
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We check everything to make sure it is pure and of the highest quality. There is good wine and bad wine; we buy only the good wine.
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We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.
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I couldn't resist hiding some historical details and a few clues relevant to the plot and characters of 'A Discovery of Witches' throughout the pages of the novel.
