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.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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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.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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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.
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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.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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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.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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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?
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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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.
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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.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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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.
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If I have a golden touch, I'd also say that I have the opposite of whatever a golden touch is, because I've had a lot of things fail. I think part of the experience of being successful is that you have to have a lot of stuff not work.
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These kids tend to be extremely driven and have a good understanding of who they are and what their role is in the community.
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The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.
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I'm so sick of the brainless overpraise of post-structuralist drivel. Michel's oafishly pretentious and phony to boot. I liked him for defending pedophilia, but his writing style is dense and irrational. And that forced Parisian accent that he no longer has in real life because of all the time he's been spending in San Fran bath-houses - ugh!
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All the time I had my success, I didn't know what I was doing. I struggled and struggled and hacked things out without any insight as to why.
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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.
