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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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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We want young people to come forward with bright ideas; we want the women and men in our country to have jobs.
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For slaves to fashion, the rules are made to be broken.
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You've got to really enable the next generation of start-ups.
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Sometimes it’s hard being dark-skinned, just like it’s sometimes hard to be any shade of brown or yellow. But it’s not awful. We’re just as cute and wonderful as anyone else.
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I will play my part by singing the spirit into every open heart.
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Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it.
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Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.
