John Grisham Quotes
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
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I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful.
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People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed.
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I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.
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You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.
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What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments: when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic
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I've tried writing with music on, but I find it distracting.
