Maura Tierney Quotes
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.
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I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
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I can see quite clearly that if there was a single event that launched me on the road to ultimate involvement at the heart of South African politics, it was an assault on an African woman by her white employer in a kitchen in Fort Hare.
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The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
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When I started out in life I wanted to teach.
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South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.
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It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.
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In politics, there is only one crime that is unforgivable - showing weakness.
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My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.
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A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
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HeyHey is my favourite app. It's like Instagram but for sound recordings, with little soundbites from people's days. We spend far too much time looking down at our phones, so it's nice to have your head up while you listen to what other people have uploaded.
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The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.
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There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire men take as much delight in their ox draught as they used to do in their Horse Draught.
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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
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I don't want to be doing fashion shoots and being interviewed about where I shop. Who cares?
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My mother had been a Latin teacher, and she was always very fascinated with words. She and I shared books and responded to them.
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Unfortunately in life, justice is not always achieved.
