Mary Doria Russell Quotes
I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.
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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
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The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.
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What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration. And you have now expressed the conclusion to which you have arrived, clearly and distinctly.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.
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We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.
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From middle school to the first year of high school, I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers.
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Speaking in broken Telugu is one thing, and dubbing is another.
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Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.
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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
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I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.
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Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.
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I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing something that scares you or takes you out of your comfort zone.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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Gin the goodwife stintand the bairns hungerthe Duke can get his rentone year longer.
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No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.
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I don't have any fear of turning 30. But maybe that's because I know I'm never going to be 30 mentally at any point in my life!
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My sweetest hope is to lose hope.
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You won’t understand life and death until you’re ready to set aside any hope of understanding life and death and just live your life until you die.
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I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.
