Sara Paretsky Quotes
The day of the march, we were forbidden to go to the march site. The man I worked for, the Presbyterian minister, knew we would want to be sort of martyrs for the cause and risk arrest. He didn't want any of that going on. So he made us stay in the neighborhood.
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Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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I can be not showered and dressed like a slob, but my lip gloss will be on!
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Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
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I toured with Lady Gaga, and her choreographer is incredibly talented and develops some crazy routines. Lady Gaga is very involved in the dancing, too, and she always wants to have creative input. I had an incredible time with her!
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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
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Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.
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I love being in my 40s.
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I believe you can never fail in life or love. You just produce results. It's up to you how you interpret those results.
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I'm not a designer, nor do I fancy myself a designer.
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It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was.
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The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school in the 1960s may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
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When Prussia hurried to the field,And snatch'd the spear, but left the shield.
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Perhaps the most prevailing expectation of men is our Superman expectation: the fear we are merely Clark Kents who won't be accepted unless we are a Superman.
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In the future, women will increasingly want men who can nurture them and connect with them.
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The PC police are out in force at all times. ... We've reached the point where people are afraid to actually talk about what they want to say.
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Neither. I think of myself as a human being.
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I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?
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I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.
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A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences.
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I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.
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Know and watch your heart. It's pure but emotions come to colour it. So let your mind be like a tightly woven net to catch emotions and feelings that come, and investigate them before you react.
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I'm comfortable with the hold 'em, Omaha and stud high-low. But the other two games aren't my strongest games. I'm not comfortable at all with razz or stud.
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The day of the march, we were forbidden to go to the march site. The man I worked for, the Presbyterian minister, knew we would want to be sort of martyrs for the cause and risk arrest. He didn't want any of that going on. So he made us stay in the neighborhood.
