John Sandford Quotes
People ought to be slapped up side of the head, not always get what they expect. That's why sometimes the bad guy gets away.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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I had an Indiana Jones fedora that I loved. I don't know what happened to it. I don't know where it went. Wish I had it back. Whoever's got it, you suck.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'
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We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
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Some of my best friends here in New York have pasts I have a hard time reconciling with the people I'm close to now. But I wouldn't change them - or their pasts - for anything in the world. Their experiences are what made them the people they are today.
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I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
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It's exploding bags, aerosol cansSouthbound buses, Peter PanThey left it up to us againI thought you knew the drillIt's kill or be killed.
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We always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more interested in the price paid by the people who can fly.
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There's something about soft, unstructured arms that's very beautiful.
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People ought to be slapped up side of the head, not always get what they expect. That's why sometimes the bad guy gets away.
