Mary Daly Quotes
'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.
Quotes to Explore
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I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking.
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
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It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.
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Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
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The gratification of desire is not happiness.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court – that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking and not enough training. I couldn't put in my usual offseason work routine. I think that all caught up to me, with my Achilles problems.
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'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
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I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Low unemployment numbers are clear indicators that Republican tax relief and economic policies are spurring growth and helping businesses hire new workers while providing American families with job security.
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There's a play that Chekhov wrote called 'Uncle Vanya,' and I when I was in school, I played Sonya, and sometimes people ask me if there was ever a role I could play again, that's definitely the role I would play again: Sonya in 'Uncle Vanya.'
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When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
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No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law just because they are responsible for upholding the law. Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely, just like what happened to Laquan McDonald.
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Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
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My father was from Aberdeen, and a more generous man you couldn't wish to meet. I have a gold watch that belonged to him. He sold it to me on his deathbed. I wrote him a cheque for it, post dated of course.
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It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
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I never bought the idea of individual genius from which the novel spews forth. It's always an act of curation.
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'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.
