Jeanette Winterson Quotes
When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.
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I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'
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The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.
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But I think the credit has to go to Geddy... he spent a lot of time in the studio with Paul, I think he needed that kind of focus to be in there to be a part of the whole thing, and for the most part he made all the major decisions.
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Giant Wimbleweather burst into one of those not very intelligent laughs to which the nicer sort of Giants are so liable. He checked himself at once and looked as grace as a turnip by the time Reepicheep discovered where the noise came from.
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About the gnostic writers themselves and the setting in which they lived we know little, although gnostic Christians were influential enough to be denounced at length.
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When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.
