James Lee Burke Quotes
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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One of the most effective tools in Brazil's efforts to eradicate slavery is a register compiled by the government that lists individuals and businesses found using slave labor. Those on the 'dirty list,' as the register is known, are fined and remain on it for a minimum of two years during which they cannot access public funds.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I was little, watching Marilyn Monroe movies. To star in a Bond movie would be bliss on a stick.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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I don't believe in miracles.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.
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In San Francisco, I found Warren Levinson, who had set up a program to study Rous Sarcoma Virus, an archetype for what we now call retroviruses. At the time, the replication of retroviruses was one of the great puzzles of animal virology. Levinson, Levintow and I joined forces in the hope of solving that puzzle.
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Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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I feel like the gods have certainly patted me on the head.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.
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I'd often wondered what would I do if I were ever traded, because it happened many, many times.
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Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul.
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When two kids came along, I couldn't see how I could support them. The way it played out, I was away from the theatre for five years. I was a postie for the first part and then worked as an advertising copywriter, but I somehow found my way back.
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America will nurture a new Muslim - one who can believe in Muhammad and the Quran but who abandons belief in a Shariah-based state and affirms the primary American value of individual liberty, which has not been a normative Islamic value.
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I told them that my grandfather had died in the Great Crash of 1929 - a stockbroker jumped out of a window and crushed him and his pushcart down below.
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The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.
