Linda Grant Quotes
When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.
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I'm from Miami, I love it when we're out in the heat. When it's cold, I'm like, 'I'm never acting again,' because it's too freezing.
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Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
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Bill Cosby, you know, he's a delightful guy.
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A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.
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Although the pineapple had been widely disseminated for centuries among the native peoples of South and Central America, it didn't figure in European history until 1493.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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I've never seen myself as a 'girl driver.' I'm just a driver.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.
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Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.
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The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
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Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
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If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work, we can make a big difference in defending those values we share as Americans.
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So often, our sporting allegiances are shaped by family tradition, passed down like heirlooms.
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Prostitution thrives in the United States. We focus in this country on punishing the girls. For every brothel owner or pimp or male customer, there are 50 girls who are arrested for being prostitutes. Other countries have tried the other way around, and it works beautifully...they bring the charges against the brothel owners and the pimps and the male customers, and they do not prosecute the girls, who quite often are brought into that trade involuntarily. It works quite well, by the way.
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Death comes to everyone. We must stand proud as Afghans in the defense of Islam.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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Folks would better off dipping their heads in a bucket of liquid nitrogen and battering them against a tree very very hard than reading Baxter's Titan. It would not surprise me if reading that book causes birth defects.
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When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.
