Janette Turner Hospital Quotes
There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.
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A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.
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When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.
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If someone has been bad to me, I believe in being good to that person. It's my way of getting back. Because that person is going to feel guilty about it.
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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I've heard stories of people meeting the loves of their lives online, and that's great. But it freaks me out.
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I mean, if we try to 'fluff up' 'Nikita?' We're done. If we try to 'fluff' 'Nikita,' I don't want to be involved and I don't want to watch the show.
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I was three. My father in jest said that he'd tell the doctor to give me a shot if I didn't behave. Good heavens, I have a mental picture of the living room and the doctor approaching the door. I was terrified.
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I try not to do anything I don't like, so I stay motivated pretty easily.
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You don't want to get too wrapped up in that final destination. You want to enjoy the journey, enjoy the process, and just take it one step at a time.
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I used to read the criticism on blogs about other people - mostly female actresses and singers - and even when they are extremely perfect and harmless, people still go after them. So I figure, if I'm going to get negativity regardless, why do I have to worry about what somebody thinks of me?
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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
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After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.
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Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.
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«We do what we can do means what exactly means, that we do what we can do.»
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Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice.
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When you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.
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La vieillerie poétique avait une bonne part dans mon alchimie du verbe.
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After I had written seventeen full-length mysteries, two volumes of mini-mysteries, a travel guide and some quiz books, not to mention a spin-off Roman Mystery Scrolls series, I thought it was time I moved to new historical pastures.
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Before BLM, there was a dormancy in our black freedom movement. Obviously many of us were doing work, but we've been able to reignite a whole entire new generation, not just inside the U.S. but across the globe, centering black people and centering the fight against white supremacy.
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Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.
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Research indicates that most women want their man to earn more than they do.
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The older I got, the more willing I was to go into the Southern vernacular, because some of it's funny.
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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.
