John Sandford Quotes
A lot of my friends were retiring from the newspaper business, and the newspaper pensions are not enormous.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I think we live in a culture that relentlessly pursues comfort. Ease is related to disease. We shouldn't always be fleeing hardship. Hardship also brings people together. We should welcome it.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
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I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.
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I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.
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I think the Republican Party should be a pro-life party. I am pro-life. I do not apologize for that. On the flip side of that coin, the Republican Party has been big enough to allow pro-choice advocates to be heard.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Yvonne Rainier and the incredible Lynda Benglis. There were many women who were really driven and became successful, who were part of essential paradigm shifts, despite the fact that the art world was still dominated by men.
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I have this threadbare caftan from the '60s that I got at a vintage store years ago - it's basically a muumuu. My friends are astonished that I wear it, but I love it. It's this light fabric that just moves with me.
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It's great - that's the best part about being famous is that people want to get to know me. People come up to me and introduce themselves, and I make friends, and then I meet their friends. It seems like I have a very happy and comfortable social life, which is something I never had when I was younger.
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Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
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My father taught that the only helping hand you're ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your sleeve.
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And from this marvellous pan-Hellenic expedition, triumphant, brilliant in every way, celebrated on all sides, glorified incomparable, we emerged: the great new Hellenic world.
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A lot of my friends were retiring from the newspaper business, and the newspaper pensions are not enormous.
