Donald E. Westlake Quotes
All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.
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The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
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When I was teenager, Britney Spears was it - that was the pop world that was happening, and I knew I wasn't in it.
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Some girls are just born with glitter in their veins.
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My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
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There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
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I'm not interested in disposable music.
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We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner.
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Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.
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How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.
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From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.
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When people say to me, 'You make us proud,' it's heartwarming to hear that.
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Regardless of our ambitions to become part of the E.U., we have to keep in mind that Turkey is also a very strong voice that can represent the needs of our region in wider terms in global platforms.
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Historically, we were always complaining about others interfering in our domestic and national issues.
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2014 was physically a tough year because I injured my knee, and you know how that goes with your emotions and the mentality.
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The words of a President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.
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High among the costs of immigration is the appearance among us of diseases that never before afflicted us and the sudden reappearance of contagious diseases that researchers and doctors had eradicated long ago. Malaria, polio, hepatitis, tuberculosis and such rarities of the Third World as dengue fever, Chagas' Disease and leprosy are surfacing here...
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I assumed no one would ever listen to my music, and for quite a lot of years, I was right.
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The record, as usual, is not good. But on the other hand it is wonderful.
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Today we are inundated with such an immense flood of printed matter that the value of individual work has depreciated, for our harassed contemporaries simply cannot take everything that is printed today. It is the typographer's task to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him.
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I started when I was three, and on some courses they wouldn't let me play because they said I was too little. They wouldn't accept that a child could play. So my parents had to argue at times with some people at golf courses so I could.
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So few hip-hop artists have ever advanced. Their songs on their seventh, eighth albums sound exactly like the songs on their first album. More than an artist, I'm a real person-and real people grow. And I wanna just sing my growth.
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All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.
