Donna Tartt Quotes
Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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We're the first not-white family to ever live in the governor's mansion. My son-in-law is Puerto Rican. I have a beautiful little granddaughter who is half Korean and half Latina. I'm the only white guy in the house.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.
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I dropped out of college when I was 18 to be in a band.
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Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions
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Badgers know where their strength lies. Do you?
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I don't interfere with regulators.
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Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time.
