Andrew Vachss Quotes

Anyone who says, 'Books don't change anything,' or - more commonly - that crime fiction is the wrong genre for promoting social change - should take a closer look.

Andrew Vachss

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 19, 1942

Topics

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Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

John Boyd Orr

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The little man is still a man.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I give my heart for this sport. I give my leg for this sport. I give my time for my family for this sport.

Anderson Silva

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Most of us are never educated about feelings. Instead, we're expected to learn socially acceptable ways to deal with feelings by watching the people around us. But the truth is, many people don't role model healthy ways to deal with feelings.

Amy Morin

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To play a cop's wife - there's so much in that world, the wives or partners of anyone who is a first responder - it's not an easy job. It's not an easy way to live, to say goodbye to someone in the morning and not know what's going to happen throughout the day.

Amy Carlson

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The importance in what we're seeing in countries around the world is a poorly regulated and poorly functioning private sector using irrational and ineffective medications that result in the emergence of drug-resistance tuberculosis. What we've done is begun a program to rapidly improve infection control in places that are treating TB patients.

Tom Frieden

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I'm pleased about representing any portion of Montclair.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

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I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again.

Roger Andrew Taylor

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Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer.

Monica Johnson

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I have a platform, and I can help. I can be in spaces that reporters will never be in because I'm a protester.

DeRay Mckesson

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Celebrity! It's become the most disgusting word on the planet. It makes me sick to my stomach.

Drew Barrymore

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Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality.

Cordell Hull

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