Donna Leon Quotes
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.
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You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be demilitarized, there's no way to reverse statehood if it violates it.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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Nothing escapes God's knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy of the sun, which, although created, yet by its light or heat enters into all things.
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I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.
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I do not favor the gag order.
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I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.
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Hanson plays music that is very much a part of everything.
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
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I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European.
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The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.
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There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.
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Exposition has legitimate uses. It's the most efficient way to summarize background information, including necessary information about a character's history. It can set the stage well for a major dramatized event.
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Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?
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I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman.
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I was getting money for showing one man killing another. Two lives were destroyed and I was getting paid for it. (On his 1968 photograph of the summary street corner execution of prisoner Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnam's police chief, Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan.)
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I don't believe in revenge. When people are bullies it's because of a deeper-rooted issue - either their family life is tough or they're being bullied by someone bigger than they are.
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The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.
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You may never see a Rembrandt or the Sistine Chapel, but aren't you glad as a human being they are still there? Probably the only thing that separates us from other creatures is that we aren't limited by our basic needs, like food and water; we have this sense of the whole.
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I don't go to the movies because I don't like films.
