Mary Timony Quotes
I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.
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Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.
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It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.
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As a senior at Princeton, I felt like the whole world was open to me. In our country, that's not a given. We aspire to be a place of equal opportunity, and yet where you're born determines your prospects.
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The game is meant to be fun.
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In my hometown of Chicago, I'm kind of a medium deal.
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There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.
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Women need to learn to value themselves. But that has to be inculcated in men as much as women.
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To be able to read and write, therefore, is to learn to profit by and take part in the greatest of human achievements - that which makes all other achievements possible -namely, the pooling of our experiences in great cooperative stores of knowledge, available
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Benchmarks are targets that have to be fulfilled. They cannot be fulfilled in an indefinite period of time, so there are timetables in benchmarks.
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He’s lying. I have no doubt he’s excellent at it.
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I was expecting Pop Bassett to give an impersonation of a bomb falling on an ammunition dump, but he didn’t. Instead, he continued to exhibit that sort of chilly stiffness which you see in magistrates when they’re fining people five quid for boyish peccadilloes.
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Once you get it into your head that somebody is controlling events, you can interpret everything in that light and find no reasonable certainty anywhere.
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Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
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... no diplomatic intervention will ever be made by any government that I lead in support of any individual terrorist's life. We have only indicated in the past, and will maintain a policy in the future, of intervening diplomatically in support of Australian nationals who face capital sentences abroad.
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Judges who find Constitutional rights the Framers never intended take important issues out of the public space of democratic debate and suspend them in a sort of legal formaldehyde.
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I had a brother once, he drowned in a bathtub,before he'd ever learned how to talk.And I don't know what his name wasbut my mother does,I heard her say it once, she said,'Padraic, my prince, I have all but died from the sheer weight of my shame:you cried but no-one came.'
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I empty myself out and fill myself with the character. I would play a devil worshipper, and I would fill myself up with whatever devil worshippers believe. Then, as myself, I empty that out and become Nelsan.
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Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom.
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So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.
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The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.
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He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.
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Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.
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Time is one of the biggest issues you'll see. People just do not know how to maximize their time. The way in which you execute and utilize time is everything. And most people push up against the threshold of their control.
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I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.
