Susan Minot Quotes

Change and renewal are themes in life, arent they? We keep growing throughout life.

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• I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Running
  • Politician
  • Become

• I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.

  

  Viet D. Dinh
  • Law
  • Lawyer
  • Questions

• We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.

  

  Harold Nicolson
  • Judge
  • Others
  • Ideals

• I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • World
  • Important
  • Real

• There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Music
  • Service

• In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Going
  • Hungry
  • Over

• Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Life
  • War
  • Death

• I grew up around really not-normal people. My family is general Hollywood. They're all artists; they're creative people who are advocates for expressing themselves. But I also have to say I'm not impressed with Hollywood.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• Having been a journalist for almost 20 years and then becoming a politician has definitely been an interesting and enriching experience for me.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
  • Experience
  • Interesting
  • Me

• Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Women
  • Money
  • War

• The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Abuse
  • Conscience
  • Physical

• People don't say they're pregnant until the second trimester. I intellectually understand that you don't want the whole world to know your business, but at the same time, what does that mean? You don't tell your employers you're pregnant, but then when you miscarry, no one knows you miscarried. Miscarrying is a horrible, painful event.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• My swing is no uglier than Arnold Palmer's, and it's the same ugly swing every time.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Time
  • Ugly
  • Swing

• Whether or no it be for the general good, life is robbery. It is at this point that with life morals become acute. The robber requires justification.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Life
  • Good

• Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Action
  • Anger

• Teachers shape so much of what a kid's upbringing can be.

  

  Curtis Granderson

• I started rocking and rolling when Guns N' Roses came out. It wasn't until Garth Brooks came around that I really got back to country. He made it fun again. To me, in country music, the rigor mortis was setting in and it just wasn't fun anymore. Garth brought everyone back over to country and made it cool again.

  

  Christian Kane
  • Music
  • Country
  • Fun

• I'm still a, you know, a silly girl... a big kid.

  

  Coco Lee
  • Girl
  • Silly

• I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.

  

  Kim Novak
  • Money
  • Search

• We first started to rent old VFW halls in Philly or whatever; we rented kegs and did parties and played our own music. We had to find a way to do it because nobody else was helping us, and I think now it's important to keep those dialogues happening, those parties happening.

  

  Diplo
  • Music
  • Important

• The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Health

• A lot of people feel pressured by the outside influences, whether it's your job, whether it's school. But who says you can't take care of that stuff and still be young?

  

  Khalid
  • People
  • School
  • Job

• Change and renewal are themes in life, arent they? We keep growing throughout life.

  

  Susan Minot
  • Life
  • Growing
  • Change