Tony Hillerman Quotes

I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.

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• I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.

  

  Fatty Arbuckle
  • Children
  • Hands
  • Reward

• They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Internet
  • Name
  • Cloud

• I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Learning
  • Survive
  • Adult

• For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Choice

• I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Always
  • Picture
  • Start

• 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.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • High
  • Growth
  • Better

• I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Beauty
  • Voice
  • Charming

• My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.

  

  Larry Page
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
  • Better
  • Famous

• As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Decision

• Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Up
  • Never
  • Doing

• I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Trying
  • Grow
  • Buttons

• There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Wish
  • Always
  • Three

• Custom adapts itself to expediency.

  

  Tacitus
  • Custom
  • Itself
  • Expediency

• It's nice to be needed.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Nice
  • Needed

• I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Day
  • Meditation
  • Twice

• When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Life
  • Fighting
  • Vision

• The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • May
  • Today
  • Peace

• Any time you lose, it's tough. There are always 50 plays where you could have won and 50 plays where you could have lost.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Time
  • Game
  • Lost

• And I'm hoping that over the next 20, 50 years, whatever, the mystique of television and film and all that will diminish somewhat, and people will leave us alone to get on with our jobs.

  

  Erika Slezak
  • People
  • Leaving
  • Television

• Whether it's Alexander Brand or Sergey Kovalev, I approach every situation the same way.

  

  Andre Ward

• You can coddle your child and tell them, 'You're the best no matter what.' But in the end, when they go out into the real world, I think it's pretty tough out there and other children are cruel.

  

  Amy Chua
  • World
  • Children
  • Real

• Dealing with LeBron is like a friendship. Coaching, but he understands that I am the boss, and I am going to call the shots, and he is fine with that.

  

  Tyronn Lue
  • Friendship
  • Boss
  • Coaching

• I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.

  

  Tony Hillerman
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