Meghan O'Rourke Quotes
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine.
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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
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Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
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Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
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Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
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I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.
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During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot.
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250,000 people turned up in Dublin to cheer me on an open-topped bus along O'Connell St after my world title winning fight in 1985. I'll never forget the sea of smiling faces that greeted me that day.
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A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.
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For me, it's not so much about picking the right position; it's about the team.
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I'm at the beginning of it. I'm Elektra's last job before the story kicks off.
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When I move to second after playing right field, I feel like my action has gotten too deliberate, and I have to switch back into that quicker, boom-boom infield mode.
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A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.
