Sue Grafton Quotes
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.
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The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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Management did not emanate from nature. Management is not a tree: it's a television set. Somebody invented it. It doesn't mean it's going to work forever. Management is great. Traditional notions of management are great if you want compliance. But if you want engagement, self-direction works better.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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I don't have contempt for Tiger Woods.
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Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.
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I believe... we were told that the 'Bluetooth AirPods', whatever they are, can be used on anything that supports Bluetooth audio.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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I do a lot of yoga, and that definitely helps. And Pilates is so good for your legs.
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Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
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Nature is a divine art; it cannot be the artist. It is a dominical book and cannot be the scribe. It is an embroidery and cannot be the embroiderer. It is a register and cannot be the accountant. It is the law and cannot be the power.
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Black people have been fighting for basic citizenship rights since the inception of the country.
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O meu coração é um pouco maior que o universo inteiro.
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Postal will be so politically incorrect and harsh, it's like a mirror to American society, and I don't think the movie will be well received by anybody. For example, Osama Bin Laden will be one of the lead characters—I think that shows the mood of the movie.
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People fight to preserve their frozen beliefs and then complain of the cold!
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He imposes orders as he thinks of them, As the fox and snake do. It is a brave affair.
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Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.
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It is hard to be number one, and it is even harder to stay there because everyone is trying to knock you off the top.
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If inequalities of taxable wealth backing up a government service are construed as denying equality before the law, then there is no solution but to have every government service whatever financed out of Washington.
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One of the litmus tests for judicial conservatism is the idea of judicial restraint - that courts should give substantial deference to the decisions of the political process. When Congress and the president enact a law, conservatives generally say, judges should avoid 'legislating from the bench.'
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There cannot be any greater challenge to the law than trying to adjudicate mass crimes like war crimes.
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There are laws for everything except the harm families do.
