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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People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
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When people say what is 'Gone With the Wind' about, they say it's a love story between Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara. But Mammy is almost a third party.
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The bottom line, ... is why should you be trying to get anybody on your side if you're doing the right thing in the first place?
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I'm a very goal-oriented person, so I look at the specific demands of a certain race and tailor my training towards that.
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I have always said that archival images are images without imagination. They petrify thought and kill any power of evocation.
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You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.
