Ally Carter Quotes
"We're going to be okay." Here's the thing about being a spy: sometimes all you have are your lies. They protect your cover and keep your secrets, and right then I needed to believe that it was true even when all the facts said otherwise.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
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I was living at home until about 27 and decided it was time to move out and move somewhere else, so that's what I did. I wanted it to be the right thing to do. I didn't want to buy something out of my price range; I didn't want to be stupid with my money, so I decided to stay at home. Luckily, my mum and dad were amazing.
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The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
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I will run against anybody.
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I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.
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As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
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Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
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The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.
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For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
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I don't design clothes, I design dreams.
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Human destiny will be what we make of it. And here in Prague, let us honor our past by reaching for a better future. Let us bridge our divisions, build upon our hopes, accept our responsibility to leave this world more prosperous and more peaceful than we found it. Together we can do it.
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I had to go to the store, I had decided, to bring back some apples - and I went past the store that sold apples and I kept driving, and driving. I was going south, and west, because if I went north or east I would run out of world too soon.
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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
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People don't watch TV only to relate to stuff. They also watch to find out about a world they can't relate to.
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I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.
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Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom.
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Let no man of us budge one step, and let slaveholders come to beat us from our country. America is more our country, than it is the whites-we have enriched it with our blood and tears. The greatest riches in all America have arisen from our blood and tears.
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On 'Glee,' we often tackle the tough topics that young people face - in fact, my recurring character, Wade 'Unique' Adams, is a transgender teenager who finds herself navigating a lot of the same problems many young people face around the globe.
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Because reason...is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its entirety, in each of us.
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"We're going to be okay." Here's the thing about being a spy: sometimes all you have are your lies. They protect your cover and keep your secrets, and right then I needed to believe that it was true even when all the facts said otherwise.
