Patricia Cornwell Quotes
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My favorite thing about playing a vampire is the stunts. It's just a new, fun thing to do. Especially as a girl, being able to be all dolled up in heels and little outfits and be able to kick boys' butts, I think it's a really fun, make-believe world to play.
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I have been to Canada several times. It was autumn when I visited Vancouver, and I will always remember the colour of the trees in British Columbia were stunning.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
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Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
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My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
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I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.
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Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
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I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.
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I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.
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Today, do just a little bit more. Turn going the extra mile into a habit - it is what lifts most successful people above the crowd.
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Roy Acuff was the first country music star to buy a home in a fashionable section of Nashville. The real estate man said, 'Mr. Acuff, how do you plan to take care of this?' since the house was very expensive at the time. Roy said, 'Would cash be all right?'
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A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.
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I've been on loads of promotional trips in so many other countries, and most of the time, you just want to go home.
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You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate.
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I wouldn't want to donate my body for scientific study.
