Maeve Binchy Quotes
I often wonder that if I had met Hitler, I reckon I might have found some streak of decency in him.
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To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
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The movie business is a big gamble.
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I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
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I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.
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If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.
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I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.
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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
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Life at best is bittersweet.
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In the end, I need to be fulfilled in my work - that's more important than the money.
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Augustine's description of Ambrose's silent reading (including the remark that he never read aloud) is the first definite instance recorded in Western literature.
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I always thought, because America is supposed to be the land of the free, nudity would be part of the norm over there, but it isn't. It's surprising.
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I began to despise Lenin, even when I was in the first grade, not so much because of his political philosophy or practice... but because of his omnipresent images.
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Love lies in those unsent drafts in your mailbox. Sometimes you wonder whether things would have been different if you'd clicked 'Send'.
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Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.
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I often wonder that if I had met Hitler, I reckon I might have found some streak of decency in him.
