Donna Leon Quotes
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I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.
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Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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My hands were constantly blistered or bloody; my ears were always ringing. I tore through drumheads and drumsticks like there was no tomorrow.
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The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
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I feel comfortable with the ball in my hands.
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When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
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Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves.
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I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.
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Broadcasting began, essentially, in the hands of very, very few players - actually two - and when television came along, there were two networks, then three. Rules began to get formulated that essentially protected that concentrated group.
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I am not an enemy of Adventism.
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The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.
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The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.
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History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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Beyond the hype, style, and speculation, the truth is that the iPad is really just another tablet device. A really big PDA, where a touchscreen does what a laptop's keyboard used to do.
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The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanize them. And one can debate long and profitably on the rule of Nobody, which is what the political form known as bureau-cracy truly is….we have become very much accustomed by modern psychology and sociology, not to speak of modern bureaucracy, to explaining away the responsibility of the doer for his deed in terms of this or that kind of determinism.
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The difference of the English and Irish character is nowhere more plainly discerned than in their respective kitchens. With the former, this apartment is probably the cleanest, and certainly the most orderly, in the house.... An Irish kitchenis usually a temple dedicated to the goddess of disorder; and, too often, joined with her, is the potent deity of dirt.
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Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinary.
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Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will.
