Maxine Kumin Quotes
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Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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I believe that I'm a hillbilly in my values and in my attitudes, and I don't want to lose that. I think it's possible to maintain a big chunk of that identity so long as you're self-reflective and meaningful about it.
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I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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It's kinda all about image.
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I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.
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The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
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The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.
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I'm a pro-horserace guy.
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There comes a time in the history of nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver, and perhaps even to succumb. When that time comes, those who love liberty must rise to the occasion. Will you lovers of liberty rise to the occasion?
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In my sobriety, I have discovered that the people I love, and who hurt me, were sick like me.
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I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was.
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Writing is my salvation. If I didn't write, what would I do?
