Sara Paretsky Quotes
If I were elected President, the first thing I would do would be to set up a Department of Restoring the Bill of Rights. I would have 10,000 people working there.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'
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I've always adored my father's music, but ever since I'd started singing, whether it was while I was still a student at the University of Massachusetts or professionally, I avoided Dad's material.
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My grown man crush is Morris Chestnut. He's just timeless!
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They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
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Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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With a bright-red party lipstick, just go with lots of mascara and keep everything else clean.
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I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are philosophical assumptions in science and there's no way to get around that.
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There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.
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The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.
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Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
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People are fond of that 'crabs in a barrel' mentality, and I'm like, 'No, there needs to be more so we can create more barrels; there doesn't need to be one barrel.'
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If I were elected President, the first thing I would do would be to set up a Department of Restoring the Bill of Rights. I would have 10,000 people working there.
