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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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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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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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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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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Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.
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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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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
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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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People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.
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They put me in the drama class, and that's the path I've taken.
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I had no idea at all how to model, but people would start to follow me. So, I would go to these start-up companies and say, 'I have all these followers... how can we work together?'
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What an audience decides about where certain characters come from is really up to them.
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The wrestler was up there with his wife, and I actually heard her say 'Can this thing do a loopty loop?'
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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.
