Rick Bass Quotes
I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms before you every day, in every sentence.

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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.
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But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.
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We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
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It is now clear that major irregularities did not occur.
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As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.
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Employers are NOT prohibited from practicing sex discrimination in hiring and promoting employees.
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In the mid-90s The older gods were falling off. EPMD were breaking. Chuck and Flav had taken us as far as they could, and already the new voices were being hijacked by the death cults. Brothers who last week were shouting out Malcolm were flipped into studio gangsters, killing every nigger in sight.
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CH: Have you told many fibs today? M: I lie a lot - it's really useful - but everything I've said today has been the whole truth and nothing but the truth. So help me... er... Trevor...
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I like to have cookies in the morning before I go swimming.
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I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.
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I always wanted to play both ends of the floor. I never wanted to be one-dimensional.
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I suggest that, if India is to evolve along nonviolent lines, it will have to decentralize many things. Centralization cannot be sustained and defended without adequate force . . .Centralization as a system is inconsistent with non-violent structure of society.
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There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.
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I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.
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My work on happiness is the only thing I've ever done where I've heard people in the supermarket talking about it, for instance.
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I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms before you every day, in every sentence.