Patricia Highsmith Quotes
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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I am from the Kardashian group. We can take anything.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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Working is hard and distracts from having fun.
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There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.
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Religion is induced insanity.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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I don't want to be a Major League coach.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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You have to take over your town in order to take over your city.
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In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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The force and the strength for peace will come from people. And that will happen when people start to realize that all the diversity and differences we see of nationalities, of religions, of cultures, of languages, are all beautiful diversities, for they are only on the surface. And deep down we share the same humanity, the global humanity.
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History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment.
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I know people look at me and try to make conclusions about me immediately, based on the obvious, let's say.
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Football lost its excitement for me.
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For 14 years, I'd been on medication for the pinched nerve, the arthritis, the muscle spasms in my neck, and I'd lost my tolerance for pills. If I had a single drink, the alcohol, on top of the pills, would make me groggy.
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Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.
