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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Bill Cosby was the first comedian I was exposed to, because he doesn't curse.
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Stay cool, stay humble, stay beautiful, and just do the work
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My husband is from Finland, so every so often I'll throw a Scandinavian-themed party.
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My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix.
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The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.
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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.
