Patricia Highsmith Quotes
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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If there is noise against you, then you try to make it seem it is for you. You just have to try to focus on your own game and try and win the match whatever way you can.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
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I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother's a drummer and I've always been jealous that he's such a good drummer. I always try to play but it's always kinda just bashing. I can keep time but no one really wants to hear me play drums.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
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When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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'Love Aaj Kal' is not really a road movie, but it does involve some travel.
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
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In my opinion, some of the hip-hop records that come out, people are willing to compromise. I'm not.
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If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their views about war and peace, environmental pollution, social justice, religous values, and all other human endeavors would change radically.
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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
