Finley Peter Dunne Quotes
I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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I look back on some of my outfits, and I'm like: 'Why did I wear that? Where are my friends and why didn't they tell me not to leave the house?' If they had, I probably would've said, 'You don't know what you're talking about. This looks amazing.'
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I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.
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The growth in emissions is coming from the developing world. So if we are going to get out of this, it's going to come out of a process of cooperation and collaboration. That's why it really requires a paradigm shift.
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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
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Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
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I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
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Sometimes, you're going 24 hours a day, seven days a week for a few months, and then you come home, and you wonder what you're doing with your life and why. At least, that's the experience I've had.
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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
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If you listen to a Deadmau5 record or a Skrillex record, I really enjoy that stuff because, as aggressive sounding as the Skrillex records are, they're still musical, and that's why they have such a broad appeal.
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I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
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My mother taught me to read.
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The reason why I'm a conservative is because conservative policies work and they improve opportunities. They are the avenue for climbing the economic dream.
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Most of us tend to be swayed by what we read. Judges are not superhuman. They, too, are mortals. This is why they have to be exceptionally careful in rendering decisions, which cause unintended consequences.
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers. I can't write in that fashion. I am not good enough for that. What I am interested in is family dramas and why we are doing bad things to each other and what our motives are.
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Why should Scotland be stopped from suggesting to the English people that we join a new union under new terms? Let's not try to dominate one another. Let's be a collection, like being in the pub with a kitty. When we vote in Scotland, we vote one way, but the other country votes another way and we always end up with what they vote for.
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I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
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You know why I fear people's judgment? Because I know they're judging. I know they are.
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Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.
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Carlos was a character, a character fabricated by Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, fabricated by the secret services of the epoch, fabricated by the governments of the epoch, by the radical groups of the epoch, by the communications media.
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Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
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My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.
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I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.
