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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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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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 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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I heard Cher say, 'I answer to two people: Myself and God.' I say, 'I only answer to me. I'm not sure I appreciate God's opinion.'
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I learned from my dad that when you walk in front of an audience, they are the kings and queens, and you're but the jester.
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Pink is not a color - it's a culture to me.
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In Egypt, every family is suffering from the deteriorated schooling and university system of the Mubarak regime. What families want most of all is to secure a good education for their children.
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My life style in a sense is kind of private.
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I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.
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Four hours of makeup, and then an hour to take it off. It's tiring. I go in, I get picked up at two-thirty in the morning, I get there at three. I wait four hours, go through it, ready to work at seven, work all day long for twelve hours, and get it taken off for an hours, go home and go to sleep, and do the same thing again.
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
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The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
