Elizabeth Moon Quotes
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People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
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When I initially moved to the city, I had to stay in hotels for almost two years. I was fed up of that life, and it was then that I decided that I wanted a home in the city, so I shifted base permanently.
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I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'
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Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
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There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.
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I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book.
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In Singapore, Malcolm X type of activity would be extremely difficult because the government can be very harsh on lawbreakers.
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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
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Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.
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The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
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Maybe that's why I like gymnastics - because I like to fly.
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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.
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My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.
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Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.
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When I was about 14, my family emigrated from England to Australia, and we decided to stop in Bali on the way through.
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A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.
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This is one of the hard-and-fast ironies of the Christian tradition: views that at one time were the majority opinion, or at least that were widely seen as completely acceptable, eventually came to be left behind; and as theology moved forward to become increasingly nuanced and sophisticated, these earlier majority opinions came to be condemned as heresies.
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All of the details that most of us memorize in medical school - you don't have to learn those things. They're going to be in your computer.
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Rachell believed passionately in the value of beauty. If she was pressed for time she considered the filling of her bowl with flowers more important for her family's welfare than the making of a cake for tea. On this point her family entirely disagreed with her.
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Liberals love to say things like, "We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share." But government is not about asking. It is about telling. The difference is fundamental. It is the difference between making love and being raped, between working for a living and being a slave. The Internal Revenue service is not asking anybody to do anything. It confiscates your assets and puts you behind bars if you don't pay.
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Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.
