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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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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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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By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.
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The world is not ideal, and the only weapon we can give our children is information. Information which is not pretty, but honest.
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I think of talent as being God-given. I know that contradicts what a lot of people believe, but that's how I see it. I think the Beatles were meant to be, you know? So when I listen to Paul McCartney, I think, 'Here's the person that God gave the gift of allowing him to write 'Let It Be.'
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
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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.
