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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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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Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.
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As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.
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We always thought it strange that nobody was up on that stage playing soul stuff. Maybe people were playing it in their garages, like us, but they always reverted to pure rock when they got on stage.
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I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.
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The quality of players - the likes of Sam Tomkins, Rangi Chase and Lee Briers - bring an X-factor to the game. It's highly entertaining and it's something probably that the Australian game lacks a bit.
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I don't think that it would make the slightest difference to life and to the aspects of life that interest me if we could go to the moon tomorrow, because I think what really makes life interesting is the big question "Why?"
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All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.
