William Kent Krueger Quotes
And what is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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If developed countries' citizens want to feel slightly better about their economies' slow growth and high unemployment, they should contemplate how much worse matters could be without the institutions that they have.
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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.
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The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a little complicated. But we do have a tradition of scholarship, and rules of scholarship. It's very much like any field of knowledge.
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I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.
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A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
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Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
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Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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And what is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time.
