Tom Rachman Quotes

When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out.

Tom Rachman

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When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.

Joe Louis

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When I went to Sundance for 'Afternoon Delight,' I came back feeling like I wanted to take my experience that I learned from directing and bring that into a series.

Jill Soloway

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Money talks, and when it starts to say goodbye, humans listen and act accordingly.

Andy Dunn

MoneyGoodbyeSayListenActStarts

Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.

Jeffrey Bernard

MemoryMeDownBoringDeadLane

If you rent, the rent goes up every year. But if you buy a 30-year mortgage, the cost is fixed.

John Paulson

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When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.

Stanley Tucci

WriteAlwaysOutLinesPullDirect

I don't kid around.

Tori Amos

KidAround

I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.

Robin Cook

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My best friend - who I've known since I was 12 - and I started the DIEMON company together.

Russ

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My parents' generation grew up high on the Arab nationalism that Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser brandished in the 1950s.

Mona Eltahawy

ParentsGenerationNationalismHigh

With poets, the choice of words is invariably more telling than the story line; that's why the best of them dread the thought of their biographies being written.

Joseph Brodsky

BestWordsStoryThoughtChoiceWhy

I heard someone in opposition to reform last night criticize the president for saying it's their money. They said it's not their money; it's my mother's money. Well that's what's wrong with the system.

Johnny Isakson

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