Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
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The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.
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I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.
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I have disassociated myself from that book.
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I have to have a cheat day. I know when I'm being good all week long that come Sunday, I'm going to lie by the pool, have a drink, and eat some pizza.
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Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.
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Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.
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We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.
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There are people who consider it almost unpatriotic to be inquisitive and to be truthful about your opinions.
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It should not be the government running the economy.
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You, too, will be driven away from your native land and ancient domains as leaves are driven before the wintry storms. Sleep not longer, O Choctaws and Chickasaws, in false security and delusive hopes. Our broad domains are fast escaping from our grasp.
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Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be essential to success.
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I always wanted to be the rockin'est country chick in the universe.
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Like my father, I believe that nonviolence is the antidote to what he called 'the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism.' These three evils were consuming our hopes for community in 1964, and, fifty years later, we remain divided because of their festering effects.
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We all knew the apparatus of justice had dissolved.
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In my small town, nothing really good happened too often and I thought, 'What am I doing here? I'm wasting my life.'
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I don’t see the problem with footballers taking their shirts off after scoring a goal? They enjoy it and the young ladies enjoy it too. I suppose that's one of the main reasons women come to football games, to see the young men take their shirts off. Of course they’d have to go and watch another game because my lads are as ugly as sin.
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I had the great privilege in 2011 and 2012 of learning a lot about what it takes to run for the presidency of the United States. It is one of the greatest challenges that any human being could take upon themselves.
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Acquiring an aggressive, honest, and communicative agent with actual relationships in real-live New York publishing houses is, in my opinion, the single most important move that a writer who aspires to be successful can make.
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The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
