Tom Holt (K. J. Parker) Quotes
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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.
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That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.
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What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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In the most important areas, as individuals and countries, we don't change our behavior until we have our backs to the wall.
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I don't do anything in a vindictive manner. Look at my 14-year track record in Gujarat. People don't vote me to power to take revenge.
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It's nonsense. If, in fact, putting one out of four people in the state of Kentucky on Medicaid created 12,000 jobs and $30 billion in economic prosperity, why wouldn't we put every single person in the state of Kentucky on Medicaid? We'd create 48,000 jobs by that logic and $120 billion worth of economic advantage.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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It doesn't matter if your ignorant so long as you can find people to know stuff for you.
