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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Lady Jaye and I always thought black eyes were really sexy.
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Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but every now and then there will be someone who comes along and ruins it.
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A lot of kids do look up to us. But there are just as many elderly people to put us down.
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I have not been able to get any grain yet. It is all in the country, and the people talk instead of working.
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Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.
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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.
