Donna Leon Quotes
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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I've never been a huge sweets eater, and I've always loved a Mediterranean diet. We eat a lot of dark leafy greens, and a couple meals each week are meat-free. We enjoy eating a balanced diet.
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To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.
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India has given me everything. It has made me Vijay Mallya.
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Acting gives me an adrenalin rush I don't get from anything else.
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Natural gas is the best transportation fuel. It's better than gasoline or diesel. It's cleaner, it's cheaper, and it's domestic. Natural gas is 97 percent domestic fuel, North America.
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I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.
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Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
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Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
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Oftentimes, you have to be able to throw it in order to run it.
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If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
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Should you create a protagonist based directly on yourself? The problem with this - and it is a very large problem - is that almost no one can view himself objectively on the page. As the writer, you're too close to your own complicated makeup.
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I can play songs that I hear from a movie and just play it a few times on the keyboard. I will hit all the notes on the keyboard until I find the right key, and then I will play the rest of the song.
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It may be a question whether machinery does not encumber; whether we have not lost by refinement some energy, by a Christianity entrenched in establishments and forms, some vigor of wild virtue. For every Stoic was a Stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?
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I tend to avoid things like award shows and panels and interviews, not remotely because I feel I'm above them or wish to cultivate the image of the intriguing recluse. I'm just not very good at them.
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Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot.
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When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.
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It is my greatest wish to teach children what I now believe: that writing is not a burden but a joy.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.
