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Getting Quotes (page 210)

What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done. Temple Grandin
Power rules the world, not opinion, but it is opinion that exploits power. It is power that makes opinion. To be easygoing can be a fine thing according to our opinion. Why? Because anyone who wants to dance the tightrope will be alone, and I can get together a stronger body of people to say there is nothing fine about it. Blaise Pascal
Jodi Picoult quote: "Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once..."
Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board. Jodi Picoult
Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done. C. S. Lewis
Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals Terry Prachett
The energy of hatred won't get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness, which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way. Paulo Coelho
I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theater—because at first glance I could see through him and he could see through me, and he knew that I knew that he knew. Look, love, I've been bullied all my life by bigger experts than Larry Olivier, I can assure you, and he's just got to get in line. Peter O'Toole
…[T]he whole thing is really a dazzling illusion empty of all perception, an astonishing farce of misperception. And yet what are we to do about this terribly significant business of other people, which gets bled of the significance we think it has and takes on instead a significance that is ludicrous, so ill-equipped are we all to envision one another’s interior workings and invisible aims? Is everyone to go off and lock the door and sit secluded like the lonely writers do, in a soundproof... Philip Roth
I really appreciated having the tape-and that song-back again. Even then, it was mainly a nostalgia thing, and today, if I happen to get the tape out and look at it, it brings back memories of that afternoon in Norfolk every bit as much as it does our Hailsham days. Kazuo Ishiguro
Taylor Swift quote: "Don’t worry. You may think you’ll never get over it. But you..."
Don’t worry. You may think you’ll never get over it. But you also thought it would last forever. Taylor Swift
Writing can give you what having a baby can give you: it can get you to start paying attention, can help you to soften, can wake you up. Anne Lamott
"If you ever find you need help again, you know, if you're in trouble, need a hand out of a corner..."Yeah?"Please don't hesitate to get lost. Douglas Adams
Jimmy Hoffa said, “I know how Jesus must have felt. The fucking pharaohs rose to power on his coattails like the fucking Kennedy brothers are rising on mine.” Heshie Ryskind said, “Get your history straight. It was Julius Caesar that did Jesus in. James Ellroy
And this was known as that greatest of treasures, which is Hope. It was a good way of getting poorer really very quickly, and staying poor. It could be you. But it wouldn't be. Terry Prachett
John Naisbitt quote: "Don't get so far in front of the parade that no one knows..."
Don't get so far in front of the parade that no one knows you're in the parade. John Naisbitt

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