Kamisese Mara Quotes
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I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.
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I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable of doing.
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Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
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I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.
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The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.
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They are very brave when they talk about other countries where they have no competencies, but where are they when we citizens need them? Is Europe's solution to Catalans to turn its back?
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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My father had no influence on my political beliefs, and to imply otherwise is wrong and irresponsible.
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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
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I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.
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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.
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I'm originally from Fort Lauderdale: that's my home town in Florida. So when I'm on location, I just get the packets from schools in Florida. And when I go to Florida, I go to Christ Church School.
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My family is weird in a very good way because I was always exposed to the arts.
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I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.
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I couldn't deal with a normal life.
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Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables, on our walls. We use them - most of us don't even notice them - and then they vanish without fanfare.
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I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
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In the very first part of the constitution there is the article that refuses any law or any article in discrepancy with Sharia. We Iraqis feel it was imposed on us. It wasn't a local thing. Iraqis have led a sort of secular life for almost 50 years.
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The U.S. Constitution protects our privacy from the prying eyes of government. It does not, however, protect us from the prying eyes of companies and corporations.
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If the constitution goes, I go.
