William Kent Krueger Quotes
I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.'
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.
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If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I actually don't invest in anything that is social, mobile, deals or ad networks simply because those are areas where there are so many players and so many other smart people in the space, I feel like I don't have a competitive advantage. So I tend to go after things that are e-commerce, like healthcare.
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Kudos to you for generating enough sweat that it actually drips off of your body - and all over the machine you are using at the time. If you sweat a lot, that's fine, but wipe down the damn machine when you're done... or I will confront you, and it will not be pretty.
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My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now.' And the funny thing is, I didn't take her up on it!
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I watch a lot of bad TV. I spend my entire day reading and writing, and after dinner my idea of fun is just to watch a lot of bad TV. That's how I relax and stay in touch with modern culture.
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Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.
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In politics, as in business, leadership is crucial.
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It's tough to lose every day.
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In the '60s, to say this obvious fact that women were treated unequally was to make yourself the object of scorn and ridicule.
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I used to love ninja movies. That was my thing.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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There is a smallest unit of space. Its minimum value is given by the cube of the Planck length... If you take a volume of space and measure it to a very fine precision... It has to fall into some discrete series of numbers, just like the energy of an electron in an atom. ...we can calculate the discrete areas and volumes from the theory.
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I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.
