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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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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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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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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He imposes orders as he thinks of them, As the fox and snake do. It is a brave affair.
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Five to one, baby One in five No one here gets out alive, now You get yours, baby I'll get mine Gonna make it, baby If we try.
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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age, in order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.
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Damn right I like the life I live, 'cause I went from negative to positive.
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After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.
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Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time. But I'll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again.
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My brain puts baths in the same category as yoga: it'd be 'nice' to relax for an hour, but I just want a 10-minute, high-impact workout; get in, get out. Showers are my cardio.
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Almost as soon as it aired, 'Late Night' became one of the most buzzed-about shows on television.
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Climbing is my art; I get so much joy and gratification from it.
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When I decided to go to university I didn't know what I wanted to do. When I had an opportunity to take an elective I took Drama by chance, even though I'd never taken a Drama course or even been in a play in high school. Two years later I was majoring in Drama and I knew I wanted to be an actor.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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I was very low and I had to achieve something. Without the challenge, I would have gone stark raving mad.
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'The September Issue' is really a film about Anna Wintour's relationship with long time 'Vogue' Creative Director Grace Coddington. The two of them have been working together for two decades, and the extraordinary symbiosis between them has left an indelible mark on the fashion industry.
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In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you're saying that you want a big house, a big car and a boat. If you just wanted to write music, you could live in Kansas and do it.
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I believe that presidents up through and including George Bush have known that Americans were left alive and in violation of law, these high officials and certain of their appointed subordinates have continued and perpetrated a cover up of this reality.
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There are laws for everything except the harm families do.
