Stephen R. Donaldson (Stephen Reeder Donaldson) Quotes
It is the responsibility of the living to make meaningful the sacrifices of the dead.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.
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I'm a Virgo, and I know what I like.
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I love finding new creative partnerships but then continuing the partnerships I'm already in.
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So we have broad bipartisan support for the bill, and it's my hope that we can build on some of the things that have been talked about in Washington involving building a larger ownership society.
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You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.
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2007, according to a Harris poll, 71 percent of Americans believed that climate change was real, that it was human caused.
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I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
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Plans never go well for me. I just live every day like I ain't gonna live the next one.
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On the PBS recording of 'The Light in the Piazza' backstage, you get to see me doing some sweet lunges down the hallway of the Vivian Beaumont.
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I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.
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After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes dramatically. And by the end of the decade, revenue coming in the federal government had doubled.
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It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But since the romantic movement - and I'm referring now exclusively to poetry - the emphasis has been on the individual imagination defined against, rather than in terms of, any orthodoxy.
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Wisdom doesn't mean that you know how to argue things or you fight with people. No, it doesn't mean that. Wisdom means how you take to the good side of everything to enjoy it. This is wisdom and that you avoid all destructive things and take to something constructive.
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I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.
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They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer to this is: No dictatorship can have any other aim but that of self-perpetuation, and it can beget only slavery in the people tolerating it; freedom can be created only by freedom, that is, by a universal rebellion on the part of the people and free organization of the toiling masses from the bottom up.
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We are living in a world that is beyond controllability.
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I don't want to die. But I want to be dead.
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It is the responsibility of the living to make meaningful the sacrifices of the dead.
