Emma Donoghue Quotes
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.
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In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or religion.
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When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
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The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.
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I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.
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To be silent is to be passive.
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You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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Even when I had no money, I spent everything I had on clothes.
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Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.
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I'll be blunt: Money's gotten buggy.
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Style is something very individual, very personal, and in their own unique way, I believe everyone is stylish.
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My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.
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In my life I do a lot of things but I never forget my training.
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I'm happy going home early and working out and just being a mother and being a wife.
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For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must.
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The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.
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With the state divided 40 percent Democrat, 40 percent Republican and 20 percent in the middle, yes, we do have to get our base out. We can do that but each and every one of us has to reach out to our neighbors and friends.
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I think buddy is man talk for sweetie.
