Jane Smiley Quotes
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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Of course, a movie is in constant flux.
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I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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I've been engaged a couple times.
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I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
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What I continuously remember is when I was a child in the courtyard with my grandmother and we milked the goat and we made the ricotta. The still-warm ricotta from our goat, on top of a piece of bread, and we used to sprinkle just a little bit of honey or sugar on it. That flavor, that stays in my memory.
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I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
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The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
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Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.
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Respect and fear are two different things.
