Dorothy Dunnett Quotes
Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.
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Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.
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On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
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When you say to Israelis, 'European boycott,' they think it means that this year they won't get Camembert cheese on time... That is not the case.
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It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
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I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.
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I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller.
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I went to private school my whole life. Growing up in Los Angeles, you're surrounded by not just Connecticut privilege but, like, your-dad's-a-movie-star privilege.
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Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
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It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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The Egyptians saw the sun and called him Ra, the Sun God. He rode across the sky in his chariot until it was time to sleep. Copernicus and Galileo proved otherwise, and poor Ra lost his divinity.
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God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things....In the Bible I learn that God values us not for our strenght or our brains but simply because He has made us.
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Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.
