Russell Banks Quotes
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You can get all A's and still flunk life.
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My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.
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I had no desire to crash a man's world.
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I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything, it's more to do with drinking and smoking. it's an art piece.
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I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.
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I learned that round four of a major is really not too much different than rounds one through three. I didn't keep to my game plan in the '08 U.S. Women's Open for the final round. That won't happen again!
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When I left the state of Maine for college, I met my first really rich friends, and I discovered summer could be a verb.
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Having been part of this wonderful show ever since series one, I know all too well what it's like to perform to the nation on the famous 'Strictly Come Dancing' dancefloor.
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I have a great family, I live an amazing life.
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We need to have more second chance programs. I'm glad that we're ending private prisons in the federal system; I want to see them ended in the state system. You shouldn't have a profit motivation to fill prison cells with young Americans. So there are some positive ways we can work on this.
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No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.
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I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.
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Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling.
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A complete assemblage of the smallest facts of human history will tell in the end.
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Motivations are too tangled and complex.
