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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When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.
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It is important that you don't let your opponent impose his style of play on you. A part of that begins mentally. At the chessboard if you start blinking every time he challenges you then in a certain sense you are withdrawing. That is very important to avoid.
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Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.
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My son Jack once said to me, 'Dad, do you think people are laughing with you or at you?' And I said, 'I don't care as long as they're laughing.'
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I was about 14, and my friend's stepdad asked me to do a 10K with him because his son - who was more into basketball - didn't want to. It was amazing, and I still remember the time I got: 48:23.
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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.
