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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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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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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It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
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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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I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date..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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All Americans have benefited from the dedicated service of Representative Henry Waxman. In every battle and in every moment that mattered most, Rep. Waxman stood up for the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the wild places we cherish.
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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Elves are cool, man.
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Write what you care about.
