Michelle Monaghan Quotes
I grew up Catholic. I'm not religious now but I would say that I'm a very spiritual person and you're always in search of answers.
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A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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You can't, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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I force myself to outline, but not too closely, so I guess I plot by the seat of my pants? My natural instinct is to dive right in, but I know I'll get stuck. I like to stick with the architect vs. gardener metaphor. I guess I'm a gardener who plants tomatoes. I have the sticks in the ground and let the vines grow along those parameters.
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I read widely - for news, the arts, science, for entertainment, and the value of being informed - and, as a fiction writer, I can't help transposing what I learn into the scenario for a novel or story.
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In my city of Maracay, there is a go kart circuit about five minutes from my home. When I was about three or four years old, I said I wanted to race, but I was too young; then, when I reached the age of seven, my father gave me a kart and we started from there.
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It's clear there is an energy positive in producing ethanol.
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This place, if I could describe this place, no place around me, there’s no end to me, I don’t know what it is, it isn’t flesh, it doesn’t end, it’s like air…
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When they talk about legal status, that's code for second-class status.
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Remember we're all in this alone.
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In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell.
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I work in a small study on the top floor of a brownstone in Brooklyn - it's about 75 square feet, 11 taken up by book shelves along one wall.
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Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.
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My cats are really sassy and sophisticated, but most importantly, they are picky.
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The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body.
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We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.
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You can't be an American if you don't speak English. Our public schools should be mandated to teach all children in English.
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I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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I grew up Catholic. I'm not religious now but I would say that I'm a very spiritual person and you're always in search of answers.
