Terry Teachout Quotes
Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments.
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Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.'
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.
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I created 'Rookie' because I read a lot of websites that I thought were cool and interesting, but they weren't for teens, and I wanted us to have something that could be ours.
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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
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I have always thought if there is a game, and there have been a lot of fouls on me, then I have been playing well for the team, so that means we're having a good match. You can win a free-kick when there's a foul, and that's a chance to score a goal.
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People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.
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The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere.
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I find that once you start helping others, it makes you feel better about yourself. It helps you figure out what you want to do with your own life.
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I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.
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I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.
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Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
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As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.
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For me, I always like to get up bright and early.
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Just as the plurality of the human soul's life of imagination, feeling, and will has a focus, a center, around which it orders and orientates itself, so also does the multiplicity of the appearances of the world have ONE center, which orders and holds everything together.
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I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.
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I never thought of being disadvantaged.
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In America, Qualification is simply an attitude. I've adopted it. So, yes. I am qualified.
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Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
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Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments.
