Rex Stout Quotes
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I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.
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Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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Every time I work on a new set, I take whatever I can from it and learn as much as I can around the people who I am working with.
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I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life.
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People should not judge me on what they hear. Let them wait and see me in action. Then they will see how I serve my people.
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In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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When I was outed on July 14th, 2003, I was, until that moment, covert. That means no one outside of a very small circle knew where I really worked.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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I know that you can only keep a secret a secret for so long.
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Life is a thread that someone entangled.
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Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who submits to no such moral test. To hold on to power, you have not only to master the crafts of deception and treachery but to be prepared to use them where necessary.
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I think every writer is in search of the truth. We are trying to psychoanalyze ourselves.
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André Kertész has two qualities that are essential for a great photographer: an insatiable curiosity about the world, about people, and about life, and a precise sense of form.
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There are many vices which are not believed because of their magnitude.
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I wasn't a big science fiction aficionado, there were a few films like 2001 or Blade Runner that were favorites of mine, but since I started this series I have gained more respect for the genre and become more of a fan myself.
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Brain science will be the most popular science of the early twenty-first century.
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There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
