Mary Dillon Quotes
Most Americans actually need to have both people working, and it's a luxury and something to celebrate if you can make a choice like this. And this choice isn't for everyone. But it's nice to not have to worry about what time does daycare close.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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Music therapy was so important in the early stages of my recovery because it can help retrain different parts of your brain to form language centers in areas where they weren't before you were injured.
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I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be.
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I think I am a religious person just by nature. I think I sort of view everything through the lens of some inner undying thing in people that drives them to act as they do or to feel ashamed of not acting in some other way.
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I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on the road.
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I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.
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If you don't drink coffee, I am suspicious of your character and will not invite you to my Italian lake home.
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Most Americans actually need to have both people working, and it's a luxury and something to celebrate if you can make a choice like this. And this choice isn't for everyone. But it's nice to not have to worry about what time does daycare close.
