James A. Michener Quotes
Look, son, if you calculate on getting me drunk and outsmarting me, quit now, because you simply can't do it.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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To be honest, I didn't really understand how involved putting a fragrance together could be - or would be. Once I made the choice to actually do it, I just went for it. I just dove in and have really learned a lot about putting a scent together. It's kind of exciting.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.
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If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun.
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I've done hundreds of interviews on guns. I'm against people who use guns. I don't like guns, but I've never yelled at anyone.
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The battleground has been moderates of all faith traditions in all the countries of the world against the radicals of all faith traditions in all parts of the world.
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A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
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In effect, you cannot stop Iraq from growing nasty bugs in the basement. You can stop them from putting operational warheads on working missiles and launching them at their neighbors.
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Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
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Even when I was rebelling against my father, the point was to follow my own intuition and instinct.
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I think the forms of terrorism are becoming very diverse, amongst them cyber-terrorism, for example.
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I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and of people who will see a world that I shall never know.
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To me, camp is two older queens talking about Rita Hayworth under a Tiffany's lampshade.
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Ninety-nine percent of all work on self is attitudinal.
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It used to be that a son could look at the father, and pretty much know what life was gonna be like as an adult. There was confidence in that, and comfort in that, and frustration also.
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They media don't care if they're hurting anybody's family or hurting their reputation. The most interesting thing about it is that it's people doing it to other people. It's somebody who has a sister or a brother or a daughter or a son or a family. They don't care.
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Look, son, if you calculate on getting me drunk and outsmarting me, quit now, because you simply can't do it.
