Sara Paretsky Quotes
I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11
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When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must make sure the project's impacts, environmental and otherwise, are considered. In many cases, NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project's impact on their community.
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God is my homeboy. Jesus is my homeboy.
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Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.
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I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
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McGregor is a businessman through and through. He's obviously a wrestling fan.
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We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability.
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Some people will always be disappointed.
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If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.
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The information revolution has changed wealth. Intellectual capital is far more important than money.
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I think I need to continue to think and plan and marry all of the different things that we could do that make transportation in space from the earth to the space station, from the earth to the moon to space stations around the moon to visiting an asteroid.
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One hundred thousand dollars was the bridge that enabled me to go on TV, not miss a beat or miss an opportunity, and raise then my own money to carry me forth. And that's how I got to be the first Democratic woman in the United States Senate's history.
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I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.
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It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world.
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This acquisition highlights Goldman Sachs' strategy of expanding our electronic market-making capabilities.
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The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.
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Growing up, I didn't receive the representation that I wanted so badly. I was always looking out for black characters - black women - that were specifically just about existing and weren't necessarily racialized or were centered around race.
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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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There's no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I'm always and forever looking for the image that has spirit! I don't give a damn how it got made.
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Because I hold an Israeli passport, I have a share in all the wrongs that are done to the Palestinians. . . . I want to be able to say that I did all I could to prevent the bloodshed.
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Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.
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If you're good at something, never do it for free.
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You're not going to be able to look like anyone else, no matter how hard you try, unless you're a mimic, then you're not acting, you're just mimicking. You can't go on being John Wayne, that's John Wayne. So you're not going to steal from John Wayne. I'm not going to steal from John Wayne and you're not going to come back and say 'Didn't you get that from the circus?' You know. But he is one of those people who instructs me, whom I look up to - whom I think is one of the masters of his craft that I am so enamoured of.
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I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11
