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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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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Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They're almost like tangent lines - those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.
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You never get the Shakespeares right. It's not possible.
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I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
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You have to trust your body to take care of you.
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My family are massive fans of 'I'm A Celeb,' so that would be pretty cool. There's so many areas where you can go in and enjoy, but I just like meeting new people.
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May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs – let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.
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I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.
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I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.
