Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quotes
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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I'm a firm believer in the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights. I don't think you should infringe on the type of weapon somebody should buy or the number of rounds in a high-capacity magazine.
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Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.
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I was tested against the best.
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
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I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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Micropayments are great if you use them for a product or service with certain properties. It must be one where you can get away with usage-based pricing, and where there is a strong rationale for making it cheap, yet not free.
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One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine or 10 verses and then boil it down to two or three that are half the length of the original verses.
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I was very surprised when I first started spending time in America. The culture shock was something I wasn't prepared for. I had a lot of work to do to try to begin to understand this enormous and complex country that I thought would be an easy process.
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As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
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Education liberates a woman.
