J. A. Konrath Quotes
My grandchildren will be making money from the stories I write and sell as eBooks because they will continue to be making money.
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Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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I love nothing better than immersing myself in different street cultures; exploring all those neighbourhoods in Tokyo was quite amazing, or visiting Morocco to see an Inditex factory.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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I've always been a rough kid.
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Every time I watch a Clint Eastwood film, I'm in touch with my feminine side, I've developed a searing man-crush on Clint Eastwood.
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If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody's paying attention. Because then when somebody finally does pay attention, it's certainly a lot more interesting when you have a ton of stuff to show.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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'Girl, Interrupted' is one of my favorite movies.
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Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
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I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it.
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I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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New Year's Eve was always a big occasion at home with the family. Every year we would get the karaoke machine out and I'd entertain everyone, even as a young kid.
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'If we are focused on making money only, a large slice of life will pass us by.'
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Every day we are paying more for energy than we should due to poor insulation, inefficient lights, appliances, and heating and cooling equipment - money we could save by investing in energy efficiency.
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other poets. Some of the better rappers can rap real fast without even melodies. It'll get to that same point.
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My grandchildren will be making money from the stories I write and sell as eBooks because they will continue to be making money.
