Jane Smiley Quotes

There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.

Jane Smiley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 26, 1949

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Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy today. He collected folk songs, retained the melodic line, kept what words were usable and rewrote the rest. He didn't claim ownership.

Jimmy Reid

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Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times.

Joe Torre

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There's just no doubt in my mind - under any set of rules - water boarding is torture.

Tom Ridge

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My first responsibility is to be selfish for New Jersey.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

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In truth, I barely knew my father at all. He was 53 when I was born, and when I was ten he contracted cancer. Eight years later, in 1979, he died.

Rory Bremner

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I think that being a Wildling is essentially about surviving the cold, and in that department, the extras on our shoot excelled and needed no help from us.

Miguel Sapochnik

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Mankind invents things to fight about.

Mike Love

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At MIT, mostly what I did was documentation. I sort of read things. Wrote some descriptions of various aspects of the file system. Did not really do very much programming at all. At least on Multics.

Dennis Ritchie

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The 'Bourne' movies are great in their own ways; it introduces a whole other sort of allegory about the Bush years. The secrecy and the threats of a big global organization.

Chris Terrio

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Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

Anthony Storr

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When I'm at home creating music, I usually wind up laughing. It's always, like, funny - like, what the hell did I just write?

Thundercat

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In this century, the 21st century, the U.S. recognizes our prosperity and our security depends even more on the Asia-Pacific region.

Leon Panetta

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