John Phillips Marquand Quotes
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.
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I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
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I'm a thigh-meat dude. Thigh is just the best meat - I don't get chicken breast. I think it's a publicity stunt that we've convinced people it's delicious.
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The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!
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I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances.
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Games take years to make, and it's important that when we launch, it can't just be a great launch catalog and then a desert for a really long time. To be honest, for a lot of developers, they'd rather not be competing at launch with all this other software.
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I'm not just a big-haired redhead country singer who dresses flamboyantly, has this wicked sense of humor and wears rhinestones.
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The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is, - 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore'.
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Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection.
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As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one of the God who is formless and eternal.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Words will never be enough to quantify and qualify the many magnitudes of human-caused destruction.
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Most jobs today are still structured the same way they were 50 years ago, when most families had someone who could stay at home.
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She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.
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I registered as a Republican when I turned 18 because of Ronald Reagan - he was the president at the time; I admired what he stood for. I respected him.
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When I climb a fourteener, a 14,000-foot/4,260-meter peak, in the winter by myself, I leave an itinerary and information about where my vehicle will be parked and the name of the county sheriff to contact in case I don't get home.
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Often, failure is success trying to be born in a bigger way, and persistence helps you to experience that greater result.
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I am an academic, and I have always made it clear that my ultimate home is in the realm of ideas.
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With clothing and fashion, the language changes - the gloves come off, and we all can participate.
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Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume. Hypocrisy, for all its bad reputation, at least showed a decent respect for goodness.
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I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.
