Maggie Gallagher Quotes
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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I play golf for a living. I'm grateful for that. It's a beautiful game, provides a great opportunity.
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I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.
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I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.
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During the period of capital moving from one employment to another, the profits on that to which capital is flowing will be relatively high, but will continue so no longer than till the requisite capital is obtained.
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Hip-hop has had this history where the predecessor just is so harsh and not nice to the next coming generation that it creates this separation and this gap.
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Yo La Tengo were a major inspiration for me because they're one of the first bands that I got into on my own, separate from my parents, when I was in high school. I have all their albums. That's the place we'd like be in someday.
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I love the ability to transform because that, for me, is a liberation.
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My father-in-law, Barney Rawlings, spent a couple of months hiding out in France in 1944, frantically memorizing a few French words to pass himself off as a Frenchman, but his ordeal had not inspired in me any action until I started taking a French class.
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No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide.
