Maggie Gallagher Quotes
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
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Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.
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Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.
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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
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Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.
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During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.
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The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.'
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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure.
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OWFI was founded by a few Iraqi women who decided to have a voice. We were sure the future government would not be a woman-friendly one. From the first day our policy was to try to gain support from outside Iraq.
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You know when you're writing, and it's just you and the computer screen, and you never think that anyone is ever going to read it... you're able to say private things when you're writing.
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I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer.
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“When you have God behind you, you can come out on top every time.”
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Same-sex marriage is not the future.
