Sara Paretsky Quotes

I look at the great poets of the Soviet Union, like Anna Akhmatova, who endured far worse then anything we've seen or hopefully that we will ever see. If they could keep writing and keep a voice alive, keep people hopeful through their poetry, then I would be ashamed to stop and to give in. It would be really self-indulgent, unacceptable, and inexcusable to walk away from it.

Sara Paretsky

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• The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.

  

  Ted Dexter
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• A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.

  

  Dan Gilbert
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• Kurt Russell is so dreamy. Plus, he's great to work with, really respectful.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
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• I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

  

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• The Iranian government still denies the Holocaust - so you can't take them seriously. And the Israeli government spreads rumours and disinformation about Iran - because it needs to for the creation of panic. I find these theological states - and in this respect, Israel and Iran are twin brothers - very, very dangerous.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
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• Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!

  

  Youssou N'Dour
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• I don't ever want to be like a peasant. I want to always be all right. But motivation is fans - not your kids, your mum, none of that. All of that matters, but number one is your fans.

  

  Young Thug
  • Kids
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• Great scientific contributions have been techniques.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Great
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• 250,000 people turned up in Dublin to cheer me on an open-topped bus along O'Connell St after my world title winning fight in 1985. I'll never forget the sea of smiling faces that greeted me that day.

  

  Barry McGuigan
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  • Up
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• Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

  

  Questlove
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• Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.

  

  Vin Scully
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• Better a decent remake than a bad original, don't you think?

  

  Ram Charan
  • Bad
  • Think
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• My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Car
  • Air
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• Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Poetry
  • Impossible
  • Self

• I have a speech impediment because I slur a lot, and they even make fun of me on 'Cougar Town' because there's certain word combinations that I just can't say.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Fun
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• There's no set-in-stone way to be a vampire, especially with the evil ones.

  

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• If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia.

  

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• I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them.

  

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• If you want to move people, it has to be toward a vision that's positive for them, that taps important values, that gets them something they desire and it has to be presented in a compelling way so that they feel inspired to follow.

  

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  • People
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• Love with complications. Scenery was the last thing on my mind.

  

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  • Complications

• I'm not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth.

  

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  • Truth

• I look at the great poets of the Soviet Union, like Anna Akhmatova, who endured far worse then anything we've seen or hopefully that we will ever see. If they could keep writing and keep a voice alive, keep people hopeful through their poetry, then I would be ashamed to stop and to give in. It would be really self-indulgent, unacceptable, and inexcusable to walk away from it.

  

  Sara Paretsky