Emily Robison (Emily Burns Strayer) Quotes
I think soldiers are not just one homogenous group, just like Americans aren't. They all have different feelings about the war.
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.
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To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
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I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I can only give them my first log, with birds, sea, daily sights and little everyday problems. My real log is written in the sea and sky; it can’t be photographed and given to others. It has gradually come to life out of all that has surrounded us for months: the sounds of water on the hull, the sounds of wind gliding on the sails, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk.
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I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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'Twin Peaks' has got interesting characters. They are all different from anything anyone has ever seen before. You've had bad people before. But everyone's got little quirks, and everyone's interesting.
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The threat of nuclear war isn't nearly as important as the threat of the destruction of our resource base which sustains us.
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I think soldiers are not just one homogenous group, just like Americans aren't. They all have different feelings about the war.
