Emma Donoghue Quotes
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Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benefits to human and animal health and the supposed necessity of using animals to obtain those benefits.
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It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.
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Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?
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I really don't have the time to spend much time online, I do have web tv, which I use when I need information.
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If you don't feel like you're ready to get your license - just because people are putting pressure on you, don't feel like you have to rush into something. Take your time, really feel confident and be ready. It doesn't matter what other people say, do what's best for you and makes you feel safe.
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I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
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Every job is important because each one represents an American's livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.
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As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.
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'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.
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Every weekend, I'm on the highway to Antwerp. I need to be there, to have the calm. It's a whole different life: I jump on my bike, and it's so small, I can be anywhere in a minute. I like to be at home when there's free time because when you're at a big company, you're constantly surrounded by 30 people.
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Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
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I wouldn't call Loopt a failure. It didn't turn out like I wanted, for sure, but it was fun, I learned a lot, and I made enough money to start investing, which led me to my current job. I don't regret it at all.
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I have no time for women who don't support other women. It's the ultimate compliment when a woman tells you that you look good.
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For some reason, we stopped getting gold stars at some age. It's time to bring them back.
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I cannot imagine myself fitting into the existing curriculum. I am too self-willed for that and have had my own very definite ideas for a long time, very different from the existing ways, as to how architecture is to be taught.
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Success will be when I can have a real swimming pool instead of the fifty-dollar one I buy at Kmart every year. But I don't want to get robbed of any authenticity to try and make money.
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I spend a lot of time in bed when I'm off. But if I'm feeling adventurous, I'll go to a gallery.
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I don't know Eddie that well, but he has a great work ethic and that's why he's been in the game as long as he has.
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The White House used to be, everybody looked up at the White House and America and everything, and now I think it's like a house of shame.
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Why is our free-enterprise system so strong?- Not because it stands still, frozen in the past, but because it has always adapted to changing realities
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I asked him "Who said you could fool around with my wife" he said everybody.
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I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.
