Elizabeth Moon Quotes
Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.
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TweetDeck is a very interesting client, because it presents a view that no other client in the world presents, which is this multicolumn, massive amounts of information in one pane. And people really, really enjoy that.
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I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.
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I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
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I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.
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We have just been working hard to have people to come out to vote and to make sure people understand how important the election is.
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Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.
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When I'm in the U.K. – and I'm here more than people would think – I tend to keep a very low profile.
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The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.
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Strauss' water activities, which highlight both its social responsibility and commitment to the environment, meet a genuine need of people around the world today.
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Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.
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I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.
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People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.
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Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight -Other days the line tends to deviate.
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I definitely pack coffee if I'm going someplace where it might not be available. When I went to Afghanistan in 2011, I brought a bunch of instant coffee. I didn't need to do that, of course, because army people drink industrial-strength coffee and have it going 24/7.
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My mind and gut are never simpatico: Every time I think somebody likes me, she doesn't; every time I think somebody doesn't like me, she does. This has never changed and I'm certain it never will.
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Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.
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In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one day travel to the Moon, the planets, and the stars with the same facility, rapidity and certainty as we now make the ocean voyage from Liverpool to New York.
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Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.
