Sara Paretsky Quotes
I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.
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When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.
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We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
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When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still young and can have the bright future they deserve.
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
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You can do more, you can always do more.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom.
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Petulant priests, greedy centurions, and one million incensed gestures stand between your love and me.
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Sooner or later, we must expand life beyond our little blue mud ball-or go extinct.
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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 proud of my immaturity and political inexperience.
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I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.
