Plotinus Quotes
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I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.
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I guess I was just meant to be a secretary who doesn't take shorthand. I'm a lousy typist, too - 33 words a minute.
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
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Sometimes, it's good to stick to your guns.
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In Congress, I'll work hard to encourage investment in education, particularly with respect to technology and bridging the digital divide.
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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I'm obsessed with fuzz pedals.
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I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.
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Working from home as a mother is the worst of everything. You don't have clear boundaries. The kids can get used to you going to work; they can't get used to you ignoring them. And work sometimes gets the message you're not as committed.
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We're not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.
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I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.
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For me, it's important to build good partnerships rather than score centuries. Once, you have those partnerships, you will also get centuries.
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One of my favourite activities is eating.
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When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.
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Television has raised writing to a new low.
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Politicians are, in general, receptive to those who make the most noise.
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I majored in musical theatre performance at college, then went through years of waiting tables and temping while looking for acting work.
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I've got a lot of other things I want to do.
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But the most obvious fact about praise — whether of God or anything — strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise unless (sometimes even if) shyness or the fear of boring others is deliberately brought in to check it.
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Imagine if we had stopped science in 1904. Yes, there would have been no nerve gas and no Bhopal, but there would also have been no penicillin. All science is a trade-off.
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Religion has always been a matter of community building; a matter of building precisely those relations of compassion, fellow feeling and - I dare to use the word - inclusion, which would otherwise be absent from our societies.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
