Scott Turow Quotes

In re-reading 'Presumed Innocent,' the one thing that struck me - and I re-read the book four different times in writing 'Innocent,' interested in different things each time - but I did think there were a couple of extra loops in the plot that I probably didn't need. The other thing that sort of amazed me was how discursive the book was.

Scott Turow

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How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

John C. Maxwell

GoodRespectPeopleTreatEmployees

Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise when visiting the Southern Hemisphere.

John McCarthy

PeopleSameSouthernDrinksNoticed

Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most.

Robert Gottlieb

MoreMostThanInsecureVulnerable

If you commit perjury in a so-called first-degree murder case, and you're caught red-handed for the entire world to see, and you get only a $200 fine, what kind of message does that send about lying in our courts?

Johnnie Cochran

WorldYouKindLyingSeeGet

I think anything can feed you, depending on the way you look at it or listen to it.

Merce Cunningham

ThinkYouLookWayListenAnything

Cancer is not just a dividing cell. It's a complex disease: It invades, it metastasizes, it evades the immune system.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

CancerSystemComplexJustDisease

The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.

Simon Schama

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When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.

Shirley Temple

PoliticsYouAudiencePleaseLarge

Bacon. Let's talk about bacon. There's no meat more glorious than bacon. You can add it to pasta instead of cheese. You can stick it in a sandwich, er... instead of cheese.

Rob Manuel

YouCheesePastaTalkMoreMeat

For centuries, the arts and philanthropists have worked well together: look at the Tate family and the Courtaulds. If you've been fortunate enough to have some success in business, I think it's important to put something back.

Lloyd Dorfman

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We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

Desmond Tutu

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Google is in a position where it doesn't even have to strive to become a hip, conscious choice. Brands are temporary fads. Functionality is forever. Google just has to 'be,' and everyone will end up there sooner or later.

Douglas Rushkoff

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