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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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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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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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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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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If something touches me, I cry. That's it. I'm a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a director will say to me, 'I don't think this is a scene where your character cries.' And all I can say is, good luck with that!
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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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We believe that Liberty will redefine what is considered an academically prestigious university in the future.
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In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie.
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Tyler Perry's movies can double what they do domestically with the right plan for selling them around the world.
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Touch is one of the most intuitive things in the world.
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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.
