Miranda July Quotes
This pain, this dying, this is just normal. This is how life is. In fact, I realize, there never was an earthquake. Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy for dreaming of something else.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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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.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
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Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
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Good design should be honest.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I love to write.
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.
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When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.
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My buddy tells me a lot of interesting stories about what goes on in prison - it just makes my head spin about what they deal with on a day-to-day basis.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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I really do think that getting the golden ticket for 'American Idol,' it's just the start of something really great.
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If David Duke got the percentage of the vote that Le Pen got, we would be terrified, as well we should be.
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I'm pretty into computers. I used to be a lot more into it when I was younger.
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In any kid's relationship with their parents, there's always an influence there. You always want to do them proud.
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So many times I wanted to go to Auschwitz, but I couldn't take up the courage to go there.
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There are moments when her voice is all he needs.
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With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.
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This pain, this dying, this is just normal. This is how life is. In fact, I realize, there never was an earthquake. Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy for dreaming of something else.
