Judith Guest Quotes
Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.
Quotes to Explore
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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Political correctness kills discussion.
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Don't let expertise fool you into seeing false boundaries or underestimating those with wild dreams.
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We will stand by the Paris climate deal.
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I never really ate that bad, I just ate too much. It wasn't like I had to switch to whole wheat bread or something like that. I really just had to eat less of what I was eating, and I had to exercise more.
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I have no control over the super PAC; all I do is write the check.
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If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.
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I love my country so much.
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Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.
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I would always contend that talent is an element, but over the long run, ultimately, a minor part of it all; it is mostly hard work.
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Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States.
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One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.
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What's the difference between a Republican and a Democrat? There is a greater difference between what I think in the morning and what I think in the afternoon than between those two parties.
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Regardless of whether one is a writer or a reader, one's task consists first of all in mastering a life that is one's own, not imposed or prescribed from without, no matter how noble its appearance may be. For each of us is issued but one life, and we know full well how it all ends.
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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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Latinos have enough voting power now to decide elections, and every smart politician knows this.We can't afford to give our vote to those who alienate us, but neither to those who take us for granted.
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Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.
