Stephen McCauley Quotes
If you aren't a reader and you have a kid with his face buried in books, it can be a bit threatening. My parents viewed my reading as somewhat effeminate, but also subversive on some level.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
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Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
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Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.
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Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.
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Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.
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I love shopping in New York just because you walk around and find a little store you've never saw before, and you're like, 'Oh what's that? This is my new favorite place.' I love that about New York.
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La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
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You have to take the belt, and I dont give my opponents a chance to take my belt. I go out there and take away their opportunity to take my belt away from me.
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Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.
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One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
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I very seldom compromise. I am a Capricorn.
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And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say.
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Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions.
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I have a memory problem. My family and friends call me Lady Ghajini.
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I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have a song among the Top 20.
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We welcome Chinese investment in the United States with open arms.
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While I'd like to believe that I'm not a bad or evil person, regardless, it's clear that some of my past actions have hurt or offended several women. And I probably deserve to be called a creep.
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If I've helped people enjoy the telecast, that's fine. That's my purpose.
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In terms of sexual orientation I don't really feel I've changed ... I'd been with men all my life, and I'd never fallen in love with a woman. But when I did, it didn't seem so strange. I'm just a woman in love with another woman.
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If you aren't a reader and you have a kid with his face buried in books, it can be a bit threatening. My parents viewed my reading as somewhat effeminate, but also subversive on some level.
