Laura Lippman Quotes
There are, of course, an infinite number of places where one is not, yet only one place where one actually is.

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While immensely beneficial to Seoul, is this U.S. guarantee to fight Korean War II, 64 years after the first, wise? Russia, China and Japan retain the freedom to decide whether and how to react, should war break out. Why do we not?
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We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories.
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If the girl is good looking and talented, and for some reason the film doesn't work, she gets a second chance. But if subsequent films don't work, she gets branded as an 'iron leg.' The whole thing gets negative.
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I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch.
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My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
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I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'
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We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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I'm excited to be a part of the new direction the Barbie brand is headed, specifically how they are celebrating diversity in the line and encouraging kids to raise their voices.
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Even though the moniker 'Vanilla ISIS' is tongue in cheek, it is a reminder to avoid constantly framing the concept of terrorism through an Islam-centric lens.
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When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.
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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
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I wanted to be a world champion.
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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.
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Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
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I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.
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Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
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Nothin' wrong with havin' a cat in the house. They can see what most people can't, like the folks in the Otherworld when they cross back over - the good ones and the bad. And they get rid a mice.
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I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.
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You pick up very well-known books on Lincoln and you will find almost no reference to his long-term belief in colonization. Why? Because it doesn't fit the image of the Great Emancipator. It doesn't fit the retrospective view we want to have of Lincoln as the man who was the moralist in politics, who came into office committed to ending slavery and waited to sign this document.
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We are bigger in number than as many as 131 independent nations, why should we remain deprived of independence?
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There are, of course, an infinite number of places where one is not, yet only one place where one actually is.