John Lutz Quotes
Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.
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I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
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I like to make people think a little bit.
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I have but one life to give to adventure.
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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
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But at the same time, I think we recognize we can't impose democracy from without, particularly American-style democracy. We need to work with those elements in the region that are moving towards a reformed process and there are a number of them.
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Newtonian physics is over. You don't act on the world to change the world. You realize the world is a projection of your inner self. If you change, the world changes.
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Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.
