Andrew Clements Quotes
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What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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Gustafsson is a stud, man. He's a good fighter.
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However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.
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Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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My father usually does not talk to me about my films, and it was a pleasant moment when he appreciated me the first time.
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People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.
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I am deeply unsentimental.
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Books and people are hard to compare.
