C. J. Mahaney Quotes
Effective teaching involves explaining to our children what they're already observing in our lives by example.
Quotes to Explore
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Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.
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People take things so seriously.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
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I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.
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As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without understanding the cultural and historical setting of the text, leaves us forced to accept scientific and sociological norms of the ancient Near East from 3,000 years ago.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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On a personal level, Freaking Out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricting standards of thinking, dress, and social etiquette in order to express creatively his relationship to his immediate environment and the social structure as a whole.
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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth.
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It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.
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Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.
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Effective teaching involves explaining to our children what they're already observing in our lives by example.
