Joseph de Maistre Quotes
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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There were many years when I was hand-to-mouth and didn't know how I was gonna make rent. I've done every job under the sun, from busing tables, temping, and working in factories to SAT prep and detailing cars. So to be able to make a living where all I do is write is absolutely liberating.
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I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jealous or envious or... it's a waste of time.
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I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
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It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you are. After a while you begin to think there must be some truth in it because all those people can't be wrong.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.
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To be a Bond girl you need courage, charm, determination and feistiness.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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The chance to work on Broadway choreography as opposed to having to deliver Broadway choreography can be two distinct things.
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In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.
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Religiosity is suffocating in Pakistan. It invariably stokes the fire in driving society to religious extremism.
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Without my protectionm your journey is doomed before you begin.' Great! I thought. Even the snake is a critic!
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A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.
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To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.
