Scott Turow Quotes
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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I spent my whole teenage life trying to get to London and go to dance school, but when I got there, I couldn't wait to get to the clubs on weekends. I knew I wanted to make music.
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
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I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.
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My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.
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You bird-brained baby. I ain't called anybody baby since Birdman; unless you're a swallow.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make.
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On the traditional computer keyboard, I'm a super-fast touch typist. I mastered touch typing in high school.
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Americans don't like European movies.
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I think L.A. gets a bad rap. L.A. is the same as everywhere else.
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On religion in particular the time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have on mature consideration satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false but hurtful, to make their dissent known.
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Once you expose your private life, if you give one little bit, the floodgates are open and everyone's got a free range for you.
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So many times I've heard people say that the right to marry for gay and lesbian couples won't really change anything other than some legal and financial stuff. It's a dumb argument: those legal and financial effects matter.
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People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.
