Michael Connelly Quotes
It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
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I hate competition.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
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Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn't cautious with whatever he does.
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I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.
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Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.
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Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.
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Look closely, and you can see where the grooves of a record widen, indicating a sparseness that can only be a bass solo, or grow denser to accommodate a cresting density of sound.
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When I was a kid, there were these great comic books called 'Tales From The Crypt' and 'The Vault of Horror.' They were gruesome. I discovered them in the barbershop and thought they were fabulous.
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My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?
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One of the interesting applications of symbolic systems is artificial intelligence, and I spent some time thinking about how to create a brain that operates the way ours does.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they're going to get up and tell their boss off... then I'll be successful.
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It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.
