Sara Paretsky Quotes
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I actually 'brought to Jesus.'
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I never feel there's anything I can't do.
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This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
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I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
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Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
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Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.
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But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
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Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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I like for my home to reflect my fashion. I love adding earthy pieces to something very glamorous, and I love having things with a history or a story sitting alongside an uber-modern piece.
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In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.
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I was a baseball guy. Mom wouldn't let me play football when I was little because she was scared I'd get hurt. So, I finally convinced her to let me play in 7th grade.
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What's great is that I keep hearing from people who are discovering 'Friday Night Lights' because of streaming and Netflix and Hulu and all of these things. Somehow... things don't get old as fast as they used to. They stay vibrant.
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I didn't realize what an impact having a No. 1 single would have. It connects me with people of different ages, and I get to travel all over the world.
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Stuck in the plane on the runway. You can always count on US Air.
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Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.
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Write what you care about.
