Scott Turow Quotes
I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a mess.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.
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What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me – cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.
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I don't know anything about music.
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I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It's usually me that gets starstruck, especially by TV stars.
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Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.
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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
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Of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or too concave and cannot find a focal distance within the actual horizon of human life?
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Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help…It makes them spoon-fed.
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What goes up can continue.
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Where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with miserable degenerating research programmes.
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All sense of dialectics is lost when someone believes that today’s economy is identical to the economy 50 or 100 or 150 years ago, or that it is identical to the one in Lenin’s day or to the time when Karl Marx lived. Revisionism is a thousand miles away from my mind and I truly revere Marx, Engels and Lenin.
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The man that owned the company that I worked for called me into the office and said how can you be on our payroll and have your own New York Times ad! This has to stop! And I said but it can't I have orders to ship. And he said well you're fired. And that's how I started my business.
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You can't close your eyes to the lies perpetrated by dangerous fools / 'cos they're handing out rules
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Always be grateful for your blessings, especially your heritage. When we are blessed with goodly parents, we should be grateful. This is the debt each of us owes for our heritage.
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Australian seafarers make an important contribution to national security in a country with thousands of kilometres of uninhabited coastline.
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The idea in being a painter is to declare an identity. Not just my identity, an identity for me, but an identity big enough for everyone to share in. Isn't that what it's all about?!
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When you look at organised religion of whatever sort - whether it's Christianity in all its variants, or whether it's Islam or some forms of extreme Hinduism - wherever you see organised religion and priesthoods and power, you see cruelty and tyranny and repression. It's almost a universal law.
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I'm lucky my parents travel with me.
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I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a mess.
