Scott Turow Quotes

Certainly, when I was a boy, people liked to believe that lawyers were kind of pillars of goodness of the likes of Atticus Finch in 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'

Scott Turow

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One of the founding tenets of racism: a society that will never allow white people to think that because they are white, they won't succeed.

Jenny Zhang

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As an editor, I have to be tactful, of course.

Robert Gottlieb

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There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

Anna Sewell

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Everywhere I go people come up to me, they mob me - anyone who has MS or has a relative with MS - they come up and hug and cry.

Ann Romney

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Lincoln was not an intellectual, but no one in 200 years understood the language of the King James Bible or learned Blackstone's Laws of England, or Cicero, or the language of the Founding Fathers, better than he did.

Michael Ignatieff

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But really it was just, it was perfect. You know, I actually got that feeling like you know what, maybe this is why I'm alive, you know - maybe this is why I'm here on this on earth.

Stefano Langone

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Sometimes I take this women's exercise class called Core Fusion at a place called Exhale. I shouldn't say it's a women's class. There's maybe two men.

Mike Birbiglia

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Kissing could have begun as a way of sniffing out who's who. From a whiff to a kiss was just a short trip across the face.

Joshua Foer

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We had bills to pay. My dad wasn't working, and it was tough for my mom. People were always raising the rent, so I had to work, too. Everybody in the house worked to pay the rent.

Jason Pierre-Paul

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There's one thing everyone should understand: I like my character.

Dennis Rodman

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Douglas William Jerrold

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I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

Christopher Hitchens

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