James Lee Burke Quotes

If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what's going to happen next.

James Lee Burke

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YouNextHappenOutRocketGoing

I'm not going to pretend I'm some saint, because I'm not.

Andrew Lincoln

PretendGoingBecauseSaintSome

Success in war and preservation of a country's social framework as a purpose at least equal in importance to welfare of individuals.

Simon Kuznets

SuccessPurposeWarCountryEqual

My aesthetic is I love anything in the late 1800s, early 1900s.

Troy Nixey

LoveAestheticEarlyLateAnything

The reality is for 50 years in this country, federal law has required people that are illegal - or that are immigrants - or that are legal immigrants to this country to carry documentation to that effect. And that has been the law for 50 years.

Trent Franks

PeopleLawLegalRealityImmigrants

USDA is committed to keeping pace with the needs and progress of American agriculture by supporting new markets and movements that will keep farmers profitable and help create middle class jobs across the country.

Tom Vilsack

ProgressAmericanHelpAgriculture

Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

Robert B. Parker

CompetitionPeopleAdviceWriteNeed

Blame me for capitalism. Blame me for EpiPen.

Martin Shkreli

MeBlameCapitalism

There's a lot of bunch finishes, which are hectic and kind of dangerous; you need a lot of luck to win those.

Lizzie Armitstead

LuckWinYouDangerousKindNeed

These individuals on steroids, does it enhance their career, does it give them a little more strength, a little more stamina, a little more psychological edge? Absolutely. How do you determine what - what their stats would be without steroids? It's impossible to tell.

Jose Canseco

StrengthImpossibleYouCareerEdge

When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang.

Doris Day

GirlSchoolDancingLittleSang

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

Dorothy Allison

ChangeOpenEverythingCracks

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

Aristotle

NatureEnoughReasonSlaveWhoHe

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