Raymond Chandler Quotes
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
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I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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Work is making a living out of being bored.
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The waves of religion based on terrorism in the 1990s are based on the tormented response of a mutilated Muslim society whose progressive forces have been savagely emasculated. Why on earth is the Arab world so hostile to women? Why can it not see women as a force for development?
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dating' somebody, you couldn't just be friends with somebody.
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A man of truth must also be a man of care.
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Above all, he wanted to stop being a child without using the cheap disguise of becoming a parent.
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During one scene, I had to do a shooting drill. He put a psychological spin on it.
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I think we're a working man's band.
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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
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The fastest way to heal a broken heart is to find someone better to love, and love more. Know that sometimes heartbreak happens just to push you to God.
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The recognition of rights for women and minorities became a large part of my understanding of what this country is all about.
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Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.
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What's so lovely about Wonder Woman is yes, she has the strength and power of a goddess, but she has the heart and mind of a human. So I play her as I think a woman like me would act in the situations she's going through. You treat her as a normal woman who happens to be fantastic and almighty.
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To truly repent of a big thing, you have to go into it with your heart open and force yourself to deal with it at that level and to apologize to God.
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Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.
