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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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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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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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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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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If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.
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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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The E.U. is a common platform where we come together and agree to do certain things. But the E.U. is never going to take over the responsibility which governments have for prosperity and security of their people.
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The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain from interfering in or thwarting the sacred exercise of the lawmaking functions of their government.
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If someone gives money to Apollonius, and the giver is someone considered respectable, he will take the money if he needs it. But he will not accept a fee for philosophy even if he does need it.
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I truly believe that it's all of the hard times that make you step up to the next level, and that's what makes you a champion.
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While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.
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It doesn't matter if your ignorant so long as you can find people to know stuff for you.
