Stephanie Kwolek Quotes
All sorts of things can happen when you’re open to new ideas and playing around with things.
Quotes to Explore
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I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.
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Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.
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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
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I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
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People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.
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My wife will tell you it's the little things, like driving my boys to school on my days off so she can rest. We're not into PDA, but every time we end a phone conversation, we say 'sarang,' which means love in Korean.
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Our lives are in God's hands. We have no control. We can't control Him by using the Bible or cross as a good luck charm without a thorough reformation of heart and life.
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I learnt circus skills in drama group, so I can juggle.
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I'm first generation in the country - my family's Mexican.
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If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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Dan Brown is a character from 'Foucault's Pendulum!' I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.
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But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.
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I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.
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Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even in an age so ferociously anti-romantic as our own, to write fantastic stories for adults: though you will usually need to have made a name in some more fashionable kind of literature before anyone will publish them.
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I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers.
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Shirley Sherrod seems like a good and dedicated person.
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I think the worst thing about this industry is when you start feeling unfulfilled, whether or not you’re earning any money.
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One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. It's not that I want to teach people, but these are the things that interest me, and this is my medium for exploring ideas, and I think the potential of novels to do that is massive.
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All sorts of things can happen when you’re open to new ideas and playing around with things.
