"What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round,"

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Source : George V. Higgins (2012). “Defending Billy Ryan”, p.78, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

George V. Higgins

#Swings Quotes #Merry Go Round Quotes

“You want the scent? Smell yourself!”
“I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.”
“We live in a moment when the dream of equal opportunity is within reach.”
“This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basraâ€¦ Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us.”
“It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.”
“When you're associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn't get any better than that.”
“Life is short. I'm years old. I've got years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?”
“My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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