Alan Furst Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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Being an offensive lineman, you always have the mindset of being an unsung hero - a lot of the people who look at the game follow the ball.
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I want to play interesting women.
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I want to help people; that's it.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
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I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation.
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Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.
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I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
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Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
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Cinnamon is a super-food that lowers cholesterol and is anti-cancerous.
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The world we live in pictures a pie with only so many pieces, and if other people have more you have less, and you have to compete with other people in order to try to get ahead. You have to sell yourself at every available opportunity. The shift, the enlightened shift, has to do with a movement from competition to collaboration, from sales to service, from ambition to inspiration, and to a belief in scarcity to a belief in abundance as an eternal spiritual quality.
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I love my gay male friends, but when I was a little girl, I always used to wish that I would be constantly surrounded by gorgeous guys, and I am, and I should have been more specific.
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When it comes to picking parts, I do make an effort to choose parts that I want to do, and not necessarily parts someone else wants me to do, or parts that someone else is going to respond to.
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You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.
