Martin Cruz Smith Quotes
Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB.Martin Cruz Smith
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What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom, and being willing to fight to tell your client's story - the story of why the right view of the law and my client's interests are one and the same.
Patricia Millett -
Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
Orson F. Whitney -
I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.
Laura Dern -
You work with some people, you see a spark in them and you can't help praising them. But everyone has their own destiny. No one can make anyone. Who reaches where and when, is all written.
Rani Mukerji -
There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.
Rachel Nichols -
I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
Adam McKay
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Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.
Laura Carmichael -
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
Calvin Coolidge -
It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
Camille Paglia -
Our military men and women are our greatest national treasure. They should be safeguarded as such upon their return.
Tammy Duckworth -
My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
Malcolm Bradbury -
A house is kind of scary.
Laura Dekker -
Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.
Eddie Redmayne -
Women who are stronger than the society allows them to be often feel a need for something stronger than themselves, and to dissolve into it.
Barbara Sukowa -
We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.
Walter Cronkite -
I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the territorial limits of the United States, have allegiance imposed upon them on account of their birth in the country, or that they will be judged by any different rule, on the subject of treason, than persons of foreign birth.
Lysander Spooner -
Live or die, sink or swim.
George Peele -
My approach is always to try to be straight with people, especially about what my party can achieve.
Charles Kennedy -
I don't really remember, but I'm positive that whenever I cried, my mother gave me something to eat. I'm sure that whenever I had a fight with the little girl next door, or it was raining and I couldn't go out, or I wasn't invited to a birthday party, my mother gave me a piece of candy to make me feel better.
Jean Nidetch -
I like to believe that science is becoming mainstream. It should have never been something that sort of geeky people do and no one else thinks about. Whether or not, it will always be what geeky people do. It should, as a minimum, be what everybody thinks about because science is all around us.
Neil deGrasse Tyson -
Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB.
Martin Cruz Smith