Miranda July Quotes
There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.
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You can learn more from a person just from their observations and how they see the world. More so than just talking.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.
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I'm the baddest among the bad guys.
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I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.
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Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for women. This is a cultural issue, not an Islamic one.
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We probably haven't seen the variety and diversity of threats to Americans' safety and well-being and our national security in a long, long time. Some have said it almost makes you yearn for the Cold War days when you knew who the bad guys were and who the good guys were, and there was a wall dividing us.
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We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.
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Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.
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Acting was merely a pastime; I wanted to make films. But theatre, ah - now that was a labour of love. Can there be anything better than performing without retakes and cuts, in front of people you can see, hearing them breathe in the darkness of the hall?
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It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.
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No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning.
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Let it be a settled principle ...that men's salvation, if saved, is wholly of God; and that man's ruin, if lost, is wholly of himself.
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I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness and demonize education and intellect. And I'm giving a pretty good description of Sarah Palin right now.
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There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.
