Steve Toltz Quotes
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Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.
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A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.
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The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.
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I came out of what we romance writers call The Romance Ghetto, because we get so little respect.
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England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
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Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.
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I find that everything I do is demanding, like Jack Bristow is a complicated man and I do a lot of explaining in the show, it takes a lot of energy and concentration.
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I've always been captivated by the Voynich Manuscript - the mysterious, 15th-century encrypted codex that still baffles cryptologists, linguists, and historians.
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Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.
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No one ever knows if a book is good until they read the book.
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Sex role training becomes divorce training.
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The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life-to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
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The economic recession in America wasn't caused by bad luck; it was caused by bad Republican policies. But the Republican candidates are doubling down on the same flawed policies that led to the loss of 3.6 million jobs in the final months of 2008 and gravely affected middle class families across America.
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The way the tour has developed has been as good an example of that as you would like to see.
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I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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It's important to me to play men who use their brains, not just brawn.
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I understand how to read people, and nurture them and guide them, and let them be free to do what they want to do.
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To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.
