Sara Paretsky Quotes
My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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I don't think I'm anti-Israeli.
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I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.
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I've got a full plate, yes I do. That iPod, that's nice. A phone recorder? Nicely done. All right I'm a bit of a tech geek. I have a subscription to Popular Science and I keep up on all this stuff.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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This medal goes to show that you don't always have to have the best facilities, the best organisation, the best of everything to achieve.
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I've loved cartoons all along. Most people outgrow that when they hit 10 or 12, I guess, but I never did. I'm not sure why.
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness.
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Even when I go do comedy stuff live, I can still feel the drummer in me about to go onstage.
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Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.
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Rent and the cost of essentials like food and child care are rising so fast that wages are not keeping up.
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I speak Hebrew excellently.
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My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
