Donald E. Westlake Quotes
I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again.
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China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.
Zhang Jindong
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
Gary Ackerman
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They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
Larry Ellison
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My worst expectations never happened.
Barbara Bush
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
Barbara Bush
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
Harold Rosenberg
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
Zig Ziglar
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The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.
G. Edward Griffin
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
Gary Larson
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
Carine Roitfeld
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
Felix Dennis
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
Damien Hirst
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
Lady Gaga
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
Wayne Rogers
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
Gary Lineker
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The two things that hit you when you meet someone are, first, how they're visually put together and then, what they tell you with the tone of their voice - whether or not they're to be taken seriously.
Lake Bell
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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I am a prosecutor in my bones. When I see something, I immediately go to: how is this going to affect a child?
Kamala Harris
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Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.
Laura Esquivel
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First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids.
Mac Davis
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If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right erson, and for the best reason.
Aristotle
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I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again.
Donald E. Westlake