Rex Stout Quotes
The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
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I remember once doing a gig in Ireland, and there was a woman jumping around and screaming, 'I don't know what this is but I love it!' I thought that was a nice compliment.
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Love is like nothing else on this earth, but only when it is shared with someone wonderful like you.
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Switzerland felt incredibly narrow, growing up. It was good, in a way. There were so many museums. But it was always a no-brainer that I would have to leave, and I'm grateful for that.
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We should expand health savings accounts so people can save in a tax-advantaged way for more routine healthcare needs.
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I thought about cricket a lot. I needed to get out of this bubble of mine. I found it in books and conversations with other people about other things. I was a curious person, and this was my release. I like being challenged intellectually. I hated at the end of the day to talk cricket to someone else.
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I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.
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A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.
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You'd be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work.
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When will we learn that we can't allow our politicians to bully the world without someone bullying back eventually?
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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I love the gym, but I still want to look a bit awkward at it. I don't want to look too on top of it, you know?
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'I feel as if I’m missing all the excitement.''In my experience,' Tunguska said, making himself a temporary seat, 'excitement is always better when it happens to other people.'
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I don't want to see a world in which women can communicate on Twitter, but their actual voices are not heard.
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I think my biggest mistake was deciding not to go to law school directly after I graduated from college.
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I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play.
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Ultimately, if you look at the characters in my films, you'll see a lot of similarities going all the way back to 'Swingers' with Vince Vaughn's character.
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A study by the Federal Trade Commission found that concerns about every vertical merger examined by the commission from 2006 to 2012 were resolved through 'conduct remedies' rather than divestitures, and that all these remedies had been successful at protecting competition.
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When we say a show is successful, it's because, relative to the investment, it's successful, relative to how else we would have spent that money on licensing something else, does this creation - did it attract the audience that it was built for.
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No man, I suppose, ever admits to himself candidly that he gets his living in a dishonourable way.
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The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
