Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Quotes
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!
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I am really easy to scare, and I don't enjoy watching spooky films.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn't give a hang what other people think of him. More likely, he's confident, open-minded and willing to make his own rules.
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I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.
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My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.
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What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?
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The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action.
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When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes.
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History will treat me right.
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I don't have to wait to realize the good old days.
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Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
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I believe potential is a dangerous word; it can be used for anybody. I don't want people to always say, 'He has the potential to be good.' Or, 'He has a couple of years to go.' I want somebody to say, 'Damn, that's a good tight end.' Period.
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I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
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Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.
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People fear anyone who differs from what is considered normal, and in a small town the idea of normal can be as narrow as the streets.
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Living in Beijing, writing about politically sensitive things now and then, you get used to the idea that somebody, somewhere, might be watching. But it is usually an abstract threat.
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When you're a mid-list writer, it pays to write fast.
