George V. Higgins Quotes
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I've never been a partier.
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The media can allege corruption, but if I do the same against the media, I am gagging freedom of expression.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
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No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
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I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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TV's been good to me.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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I've loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Raceway Park in New Jersey. I think I got it from my father.
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Winelibrary.tv was about building personal brand equity. It was a business move. Now, it was totally surrounded by a passion for wine, but I very much gave a lot of thought to doing a sports-video blog instead.
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Our government shouldn’t make promises we cannot keep – but we must keep the promises we’ve already made.
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You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was 'the scourge of God.'
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I think that I have very few personal gifts to bring to real politics.
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I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.
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Home wasn't built in a day.
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I need the lightness of children's lit.
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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
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We swear by the Quran and Sunnah, and we will not compromise with any infidel....Islam is the truth and all else is falsehood.
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I play, in real life, Kim, who is actually Marshall Mathers ex-wife as of now. She lies and says she is pregnant because she really wants to keep him and he figures her out.
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Life is hard but being stupid makes it harder.
