Anthony Doerr Quotes

Gold and diamonds are nice, but clean, crisp, controlled water has long been the preeminent hallmark of the rich.

Anthony Doerr

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I don't operate on smokers. I tell cigarette smokers that I can operate on you, I get paid the same. And you might even do well. But it's the wrong thing to do. So I refuse to operate on you until you stop smoking.

Mehmet Oz

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I didn't think much about Marsden Hartley until very recently, but Gertrude Stein found him to be the best American painter in Europe at the time she was alive. I consider my tributes to him my most important works.

Robert Indiana

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If you are an American, you have got to defend the standards of the presidency of the United States.

Ana Navarro

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When I was 16... I worked in a pet store. And they fired me because... they had three snakes in there, and one day I braided them.

Steven Wright

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I'm on the cover of the lingerie football swimsuit calendar this year.

Trishelle Cannatella

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It's so great in the theater when everyone catches up on the truth.

Tom Stoppard

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I don't think I'm really so unique. If every black person looked at their life they would quickly discover that they have been influenced by every type of music prevalent in America.

Roy Ayers

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In reporting, you will often be humbled by the courage others have in telling and trusting you with their tale, no two alike.

Mary Pilon

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Typically, I don't get to unwind after a day at work.

Martin O'Malley

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Kids are always writing me: 'I had a bad day too.' 'I got gum in my hair.' And the kids also write to me to pass on advice to Alexander. My favorite one of those being, 'The next time you have a bad day, blame your brothers.' I didn't expect this. It's certainly the most successful of my books.

Judith Viorst

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I've never really felt at home in L.A. I've only been here to work, and then I immediately go back to New York.

Dianne Wiest

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I have always done my own stunts, and I have been in hundreds of fights in films, but I have never been in a fist fight outside the movies.

Dennis Quaid

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