Olen Steinhauer Quotes
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
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I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.
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I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
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I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.
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We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.
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I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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According to our estimates, the Hungarians working in the U.K. altogether pay more contributions and taxes than the benefits that they get. So we belong to the world of the fair working people.
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If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.
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Also, I am very religious. It gave me peace of mind all my career.
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God is no further from you on your worst day than He is on your best day. Just open your heart to receive Him and His love.
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Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.
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If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.
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Some were paid solely for their ability to dream up the unthinkable.
