S. E. Hinton Quotes
You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead just overnight.
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The main threat to the future of Europe is not those who want to come here to live but our own political, economic, and intellectual elites bent on transforming Europe against the clear will of the European people.
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If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.
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I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.
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My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees, whether in a for-profit business or a not-for-profit, should keep in mind: A little extravagance goes a long way.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
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Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot.
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Some of my best friends are gay guys, and they said, "You're so straight, we're not interested."
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Opposition can be useful. Every opposition movement is good and useful if it acts within the law... If there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of the majority. That's the way it's done in the U.S. and that's the way it's done in Russia.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead just overnight.
