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Sara Paretsky Quotes

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: June 8, 1947

Topics

Loved Lake Golden She First Cliff

I was very average in the social label scale going through school. I was neither the coolest person in school, nor did I suffer the slings and arrows of being made fun of to such a degree that I couldn't get through the day.

Day School Fun Person Degree Going

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

People You Train Will Real Anything

I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself be pigeon-holed, not necessarily by other people, but in one's own mind.

People Mind Think Dangerous Hand

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

Service Intelligence London Secret

There's nothing I have to hide or defend. I'm gonna live my life. And there are times when people wanna try to attack me, and I don't know why, but they will. And that's okay.

Life Live People Me My Life Hide

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I Am Enough Blood Will Right Give

I never set out to be part of a genre, because I listen to all types of music.

Music Listen Never Out Because Set

The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.

Daughter Religion People Me Church

Words must be matched by action if change is to become lasting.

Jose Angel Gurria

Change Words Action Become Must

Coal is the most carbon-intensive fuel available for electricity generation. The most urgent threat to climate policy is the scale of new investments in unabated coal-fired electricity generation still being planned.

Jose Angel Gurria

Generation Electricity New Policy

I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.

Time Progress People Wait Excuses

All of this talk of recession offends me. I am delighted that bankers have less money.

Money I Am Me Talk Recession Less

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