Scott Turow Quotes

There are a whole lot of little tales told in 'Presumed Innocent,' whether it's about the Hobberly kid, who was an important witness who ends up assassinated, or an accountant named Marcy Lupino, who meets a horrible fate in a state penitentiary. There's less of that in 'Innocent,' and deliberately so.

Scott Turow

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I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain.

Mercedes Ruehl

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Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed.

Tony Campolo

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I think airports are places of huge human drama. The more I see of it, the more I am convinced that Heathrow is a secret city, with its own history, folklore and mythology. But what has surprised me is the love the people who work there feel for the place. Everyone seems to think they are plugged into something majestic.

Tony Parsons

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Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

Michelangelo

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I've done so many movies and TV that you get to be friends with everyone.

Michael Rooker

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I will not quit this game because of what the media has done to me.

Michael Jordan

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I'd love to collaborate with a writer, but I'm such a control freak, it might be difficult.

Mini Grey

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I believe in Father Frost. But not too deeply. But anyway, you know, I'm not one of those people who are able to tell the kids that Father Frost does not exist.

Dmitry Medvedev

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Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.

Aphra Behn

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In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

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Losing one's mother to a car crash at age four isn't a readily accessible idea of good luck, but I've come to accept it as the condition that was required for my luck to fall into place.

Allegra Huston

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My closest friends from Israel make fun of me for becoming an American, and my American friends make fun of how Israeli I am... I can't win.

Alona Tal

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