John Grisham Quotes
I like to start with the first chapter, end with chapter 40. No flashbacks, nothing fancy, just a direct storytelling.
Quotes to Explore
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We've tried to make a Superman movie where he does stuff and you go, 'Yeah, if I was Superman, that's what I'd do.' Even though he's an alien, he's more relatable, more human.
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It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.
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It's not ideal to always be one eye on the Blackberry and two arms around my children. For the sake of mothers out there who don't have the Blackberry but do have the children and are hoping someone will be raising their voice on their behalf, it's a great privilege.
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Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.
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I believe that every child in Maryland deserves a world-class education, regardless of what neighborhood they grow up in.
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A revolution is not a bed of roses.
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We are still keeping, as much as we can to the one million commitment that we made, hoping that at a certain point in time, the headwinds represented by the strength of the yen will be a little bit less strong.
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If I am elected president, every militant on the face of the planet will know, if you go and join ISIS, if you wage jihad on the United States of America, if you attempt to murder innocent Americans you are signing your death warrant.
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I like being by myself.
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Jerusalem is not just a beautiful city: the challenge is to show that Jerusalem can be shared in peace and respect.
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I am very shy with people I don't know.
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There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.
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They bring me faith like a closed package in someone else's plate. They want me to accept it so that I don't open it.
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To know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.
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Scared out of his seven senses.
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I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.
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The Anarchists believe in civil society; only they insist that the freedom of civil society shall be complete instead of partial.
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Thank you for touching me. Some of the only moments worth living were spent with you. Not you especially, the collective you.
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Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
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Yeah, but our guys are too smart for that. We talk all the time about that and they understand it.
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Every man is made to reach out beyond his grasp.
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I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in that for which they have exalted themselves.
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An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.
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I like to start with the first chapter, end with chapter 40. No flashbacks, nothing fancy, just a direct storytelling.
