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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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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I'm not very interested in pops concerts. I'm interested in special events.
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Grittier students are more likely to earn their diplomas; grittier teachers are more effective in the classroom. Grittier soldiers are more likely to complete their training, and grittier salespeople are more likely to keep their jobs. The more challenging the domain, the more grit seems to matter.
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It's outrageous to me when I see people hate on someone because of their sexuality. I hate the intolerance. I hate the judgment. I hate it so much.
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Getting books out into the world helps us all.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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What good is power if there's no connection point? My entire style's built around that actual basis.
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I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.
