Darby Stanchfield Quotes
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
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You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.
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Pakistan has dozens of laboratories and production and storage sites scattered across the country. After developing warheads with highly enriched uranium, it has more recently tried to do the same with more-powerful and compact plutonium.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.
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I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.
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I never forbid myself anything.
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I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, 'Let's talk about something that matters'.
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When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.
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The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.
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Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.
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A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.
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Issue the orders Sir, and I will storm Hell.
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In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognise, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views.
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Whatever moisture is left in the popcorn when it gets from harvest to bag to your popper is what's going to determine how well the corn pops.
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One of the things I enjoy the most is fishing.
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Wakanda was allowed to develop freely, specifically on its own. Wakanda pushed back all the invaders. So they maintained all their traditions; they maintained all their styles.
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And we're going, 'Oh, Captain Clever! Whoa-ho-ho! Rattle it, and if it doesn't go off, it can't be a bomb!'
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I'm a writer, not an activist. My job is to analyse things, to think them through and examine them.
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A healthy, vital society is not one in which we all agree. It is one in which those who disagree can do so with honor and respect for other people's opinions... and an appreciation of our shared humanity.
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What I miss most about living in Alaska is the fishing.
