Jamie Zawinski Quotes
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
Wangari Maathai -
Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.
Mackenzie Davis -
When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
T. B. Joshua -
I've seen women afraid to stretch for things. They avoid opportunities they don't feel qualified for yet. Instead, they should grab risky opportunities that will force them to grow on the job and learn to do it.
Karen Finerman -
I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
Joanne Rowling -
It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
Natasha Trethewey
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
Ted Dekker -
The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
Iris Chang -
I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.
Patrick Marber -
Dan Henderson, even when you're close and he hits you from very, very close, you can feel how heavy his hands are. His hands are pretty powerful.
Daniel Cormier -
My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.
Ted Dekker -
They hate whom they fear.
Quintus Ennius
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No one can look bad when you've been lit for six hours.
Kate Winslet -
I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.
Pat Quinn -
Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.
Warren Christopher -
It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.
R. L. Stine -
I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel.
Daniel Craig -
I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.
Daniel Bryan
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Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
Walt Whitman -
The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.
Davy Jones The Monkees -
I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.
Catherynne M. Valente -
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Jim Horning -
Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
Joanne Harris -
I use a really simple calendar program on my computer.
Jamie Zawinski