Richard Russo Quotes
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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
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The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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I think that each woman, whatever age, needs to recognize something good in her body. Someone has beautiful legs, someone has beautiful hair, someone else has beautiful decolletage or a beautiful waist or beautiful hands. Everyone has something great.
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I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
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All my songs are where I am.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.
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Saving petrol is saving India's money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this.
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I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.
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I know all the books of the Bible.
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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
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I have a theory that is the only original things we ever do are mistakes. The only thing that we can really attribute to ourselves that is purely original are our screw-ups.
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He looked no different now than when I first met him (in January). He's happy and excited.
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I'm opinionated because I care so much about the music and the songs.
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I think I'm the best president I've ever been right now. And I think the team that is operating right now functions as well as any team that I've had. And so, you know, there is a part of you that thinks, "Man, we're pretty good at this stuff right now." And you hate to see that talent disperse.
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I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.
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I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.
