Jim Bishop Quotes
When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?
Quotes to Explore
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
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My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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I see potential in everything. It's about opening your mind to what you can do to the garment: because they're cheap, you can cut them or stitch them, and if you stuff it up, it's fine - it's only two dollars.
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I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.
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I am just your everyday, average girl. I live by the beach. I wear flip flops. I don't wear make-up. I go to the gym.
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Basically, the myth is that America has been founded on the free market; the government has done very little; it has thrived under free trade. But actually, if you look at the history, this is actually the country that has succeeded most with protectionist policies.
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Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.
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Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with.
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The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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You never say never. There's always a chance to do things in the future.
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The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.
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I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
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Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.
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Stuart: Will you explain to me what these lesbian and gay groups are doing in bed with conservative Republicans?Lois: Getting reamed. But they seem to like it.
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When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?
