Mary Doria Russell Quotes
God's got a lot of explaining to do. Of course, God never explains. When life breaks your heart, you're just supposed to pick up the pieces and start all over, I guess.
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The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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I think I need security.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.
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So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.
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When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.
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I could put you in a condo, all the way up in Toronto
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We have at our fingertips information that 500 years ago would have made the poorest man a prince.
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Life is not a rehearsal.
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The primary nature of every human being is to be open to life and love. Being guarded, armoured, distrustful and enclosed is second nature in our culture. It is the means we adopt to protect ourselves against being hurt, but when such attitudes become characterological or structured in the personality, they constitute a more severe hurt and create a greater crippling than the one originally suffered.
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God's got a lot of explaining to do. Of course, God never explains. When life breaks your heart, you're just supposed to pick up the pieces and start all over, I guess.
