Sonya Hartnett Quotes
A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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I see four principles as laying the foundations for the kind of economic recovery Europe needs: fairness, efficiency, solidarity and growth.
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If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.
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I have to clean my room and unload the dishwasher, wash the pans, and feed the dogs.
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I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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Every television show is sentenced to death - time and date of execution unknown.
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An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her with a vague anguish...like a shadow... a mist passing across her soul's summer day.
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The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.
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Donald Trump is either a racist or peddling to it, and both are frankly unacceptable and make him unfit to be president of the United States.
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I was 36 when I had my first son, Thomas, and 39 when I had Hugo, my second.
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When culture changes around us, God's standard of living does not. Even when we're engulfed by evil, the eyes of the Lord range to and fro throughout all the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to Him.
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Eminent nutritionists have traded their independence for the food industry's favors.
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When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.
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I have no income coming in, my bank account is nearly empty and I can't access the money that I have. My credit cards are maxed out and I need help. I hate to do this, but I don't have a choice.
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A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds.
