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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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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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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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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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 was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently.
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I had forgotten until I looked up old notes that I sold the film rights of my first book, a life of Mary Wollstonecraft: there was a lunch, a contract, a small sum of money, then nothing.
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The FDA serves a real purpose: To protect public health.
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Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
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It was calling for a real good match.
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Some men look great unshaven; others just look like they forgot to shave. Beards and mustaches can be really distinctive if you go for an earthy, rock-and-roll look like the Kings of Leon or the Killers.
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House Speaker John Boehner and presumed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell understand the art of politics.
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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.
