Scott Turow Quotes
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.
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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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I remember there being a period of time when I had a baby, and I was so sleep-deprived that I'd get into having no filter, and that was not good.
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I do think, even though you are a public figure, I do think you should be entitled to your privacy, and I do think that there are things that go on in relationships and behind closed doors that are completely private.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.
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High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.
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If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The reason I left is that I wanted to explore what ballet is all about, and if I had stayed put, that wouldn't have happened.
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I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
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I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.
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Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
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The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.
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A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
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I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.
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The Savior accomplished the Atonement, which resolves the most terrible burdens that can occur in this life.
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Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you're going to find anywhere in the world.
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I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain.
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Postmodernism cost literature its audience.
