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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The Russian proposal over Iran's uranium enrichment program is considerable, but it has some problems and ambiguities to be clarified in future talks.
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It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out.
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I love Monopoly. You know why? When I play Monopoly with you, I'm going to buy everything from Baltic Avenue to Marvin Gardens. If you get to my side of the board, you'd better roll boxcars, or you're going to pay rent.
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I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.
