Scott Turow Quotes

I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that just wasn't me. I'm not a scholar; I didn't have a scholar's attitude toward literature.

Scott Turow

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As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.

Jock Sturges

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Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests.

Jill Lepore

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Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

Robert McAfee Brown

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All I have are my instincts. They've never failed me.

Angela Ahrendts

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If events had taken a different course, I could have been one of those children going to a school without the sorts of opportunities that I've subsequently had.

Michael Gove

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We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was, unfortunately, lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change.

John Sununu

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I am old enough to remember the enormous fight over Tate Modern. It is such a part of our cultural landscape now, we forget the opposition to it.

Simon Rattle

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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Rita Mae Brown

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My goal is for General Motors to lead in safe autonomous driving.

Mary Barra

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I have no idea what I want to do for a career. But in terms of my advocacy work, I'm definitely going to continue.

Jazz Jennings

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I learned early on how to treat women by the examples that were set around me.

Jared Leto

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I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.

Debbie Harry

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