Sara Paretsky Quotes
Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.
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We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.
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I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.
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The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.
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Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights.
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More and more people are finally realizing that in the heart of America, there's all this incredible music that wasn't widely heard before because it wasn't in the interest of those who feel they have to control the taste of the wider public.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.
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Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.
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You can get beat any day.
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We have a responsibility to ensure the Palestinian Authority is abiding by U.S. law with total transparency.
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I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.
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I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.
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God's knowledge extends to things not in existence, and includes also the infinite.
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…the British. Haughty, white, fat, ugly, by no means sympathique, cold…
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The Outsider's miseries are the prophet's teething pains. He retreats into his room, like a spider in a dark corner; he lives alone, wishes to avoid people.
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I like talky scenes.
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Those who suffer from an exaggerated sense of their own ability and accomplishment are continually subject to frustration, disappointment, and rage when reality intrudes and the world doesn't validate their idealized view of themselves.
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When I started the business, only banks operated at airports, only banks issued travellers' cheques, only banks issued international payments, only banks serviced their own branch networks.
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Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific reactions during the movie.
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Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.
