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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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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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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It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism.
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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.
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We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
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Democracy is our most valuable possession. Upholding it is our duty and our responsibility. This means a continuous, decisive and self-confident argument; it means effort and endeavor to reach compromise and long-lasting consensus. These form the cornerstones of the only form of political system that can guarantee freedom.
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We had never before seen a place where European influence had not contributed to smooth and soften the rough features of uncultivated nature. The prospect of Rangoon, as we approached, was quite disheartening.
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I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.
