Alan Furst Quotes
The brutalization of humans by other humans never fails to get to me in some angry-making way. It shot up in me like an explosion.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way.
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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
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Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
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Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
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I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.
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Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer's eve.
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If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
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Some people brighten up a room just by leaving it.
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The brutalization of humans by other humans never fails to get to me in some angry-making way. It shot up in me like an explosion.
