John Sandford Quotes
I've always had a fascination with the technical and small-scale aspects of life - the national media seem to have more interest in the sweeping political views.
Quotes to Explore
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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I'm a very lucky girl.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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Everybody asks me questions about the inside of James Franco's mouth.
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Even when I was in Dubai, I used to host small birthday parties, events, and lots more to make money of my own to fulfil my wish to become an actor. I didn't take any money from my parents to fulfil my dream.
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When it's a really dark emotional scene, you have to make the effort to shake it off, at the end of the day, before you go home to your kids and try to be a normal human being. You definitely want to make that effort to shake it off.
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When my son was little, we mothers always did the Halloween parties, and I would wear my orange-and-black Chanel. It comes in handy on October 31. I'm the chicest pumpkin around.
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I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.
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I've always had a fascination with the technical and small-scale aspects of life - the national media seem to have more interest in the sweeping political views.
