"I like a little danger. Tame danger, controlled……" — Ross Macdonald
"I like a little danger. Tame danger, controlled by me. It gives me a sense of power, I guess, to take my life in my hands and know damn well I’m not going to lose it."
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Ross Macdonald
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26 Quotes by Ross Macdonald
Ross Macdonald has 26 quotes on this site.
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Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
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I have a secret passion for mercy. . . but justice is what keeps happening to people.
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I used to think the world was divided into good people and bad people, that you could pin responsibility for…
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The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.
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We're all in the game. We all drive cars, and we're all hooked on oil. The question is how we…
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The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded…
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As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older…
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There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write…
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The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.
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When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members…
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The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.
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An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.
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More Controlled Quotes
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national…
— Wendell Berry
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You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and…
— Jello Biafra
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Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel.
— Conrad Black
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For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders…
— Conrad Black
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About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
— Manolo Blahnik
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The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all…
— Alvin Ailey
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Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision…
— Dan Brown
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This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at…
— James L. Buckley
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I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun!…
— Carol Burnett
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The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
— Taylor Caldwell
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Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than…
— Margaret Cho
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Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
— Jackie Chan
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