Dorothy Allison Quotes
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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Indeed, our British friends have decided to leave us - which is very sad for all of us - but life goes on, and the European Union as well goes on.
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.
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Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises for themselves.
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To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
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I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
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South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.
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Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.
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We create an image of happiness and success and then we are beholden to it. We tell ourselves stories and sometimes these stories become so strong as to imprison us. Breaking free from our personal fortresses is a long, hard journey, but ultimately what allows one to grow.
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Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?
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It was a pleasure to work with everybody at 'American Idol' and to be able to be part of the 'Idol' family.
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I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before.
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Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.
