Sarah Pinborough Quotes
I don't mind a narrator who's self-deceiving, but the clues for their truth have to be there for the reader to see.
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The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
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As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
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Sejamos simples e calmos,Como os regatos e as árvores,E Deus amar-nos-á fazendo de nósBelos como as árvores e os regatos,E dar-nos-á verdor na sua primavera,E um rio aonde ir ter quando acabemos...E não nos dará mais nada, porque dar-nos mais seria tirar-nos mais.
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By Numbers here from Shame or Censure free,All Crimes are safe, but hated Poverty.This, only this, the rigid Law persues,This, only this, provokes the snarling Muse.
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Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.
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The Fed's ability to raise and lower short-term interest rates is its primary control over the economy.
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Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it!
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I am not an expert on Chinese science fiction. I probably know more than anyone else in the West, but that doesn't actually mean I am an expert.
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Coach Wooden, when he speaks, you listen. I've taken a lot of things from him and his little blue book because to him, it's not just about basketball, it's about life as well.
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With regards to pressure, you can't be too conscious of it.
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What I finally did in 1995 was I said, I'm going to get out of this town and I'm going to go out West.
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It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons.
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When I feel lost and can't make a decision, I just stop and get quiet. I take a time-out.
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I like the things around me to be beautiful and slightly dreamy, with a feeling of worldliness.
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It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.
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Public servants should always be accountable and responsible for what they are advocating, and I challenge the American people to demand this from their representatives.
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I'm a small-time white kid trying to represent hip-hop. If a hip-hop artist comes up and beats me in a battle, who did they beat? A small-town white kid who ain't never been an MC, who ain't never done nothing. Now if an MC comes to battle and they get beat by a small-town white boy, that's MC suicide.
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I'm a higgledy-piggledy person in every way. On days that I work, I work for eight hours in a row, with my internet access entirely turned off, locked in my office.
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A child walked by, rolling a metal hoop that made a sound of autumn.
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We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.
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I don't mind a narrator who's self-deceiving, but the clues for their truth have to be there for the reader to see.
