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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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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My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to play hockey, I could not believe that my parents let us play as long as they did.
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It is time for Congress to save the Postal Service, not dismantle it.
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We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement - each particular little increase being as imperceptible as in the case of bodily infirmities. But yet our habits are voluntary, in that it was once in our power to adopt or not to adopt such or such a course of conduct.
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There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.
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Jobs are critically important, but looking at economic change through the impact on jobs has always been a difficult way to think about economic progress.
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Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.
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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.
