Jane Smiley Quotes
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
Barton Gellman
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
Eartha Kitt
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
Walter Payton
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
Oliver Cromwell
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As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.
Frances O'Grady
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
Kary Mullis
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
Iggy Pop
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
Karl Rove
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A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.
Laura Benanti
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
Karl Philipp Moritz
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
Maira Kalman
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Moreover, there is this harm too, and one of vast extent, and touching men generally, that by insincerity and lying faith and truth are lost, which are the firmest bonds of human society, and, when they are lost, supreme confusion follows in life, so that men seem in nothing to differ from devils.
John Henry Newman
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The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.
J. Irwin Miller
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I know when it's time to joke and when it's time to be serious. As far as football goes, I'm serious.
Jason Pierre-Paul
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Little Haley Joel Osment in 'The Sixth Sense' can see dead people. Well, I can see racist people.
Jordan Peele
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I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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People are quite frequently eccentric.
Jane Smiley
