Mona Simpson Quotes
Everybody in America grew up without a father even if they had one. It was the fifties. They were working.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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I try to do my best.
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Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.
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One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.
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I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
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There's nothing wrong in men of God going into politics. It will help them to do what is right.
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There were a few teachers who just did not like me because of my face. Once, I was told to stand in the corner until I cheered up. The attitude was, 'Oh, for God's sake, what's the matter with him?' But it's just a natural expression.
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Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.
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I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working.
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Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.
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A lot of racers have some of their best days when they're sick.
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The word 'campaign' is a war term. So when you go into a campaign you just prepare to go to war. If you think this is an exercise in civic activity...then you are going to be surprised.-1985
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Maybe you ride a different wave. Maybe you catch another ray of the sun That I've just begun to feel.
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The Master was allergic to ideologies. 'In a war of ideas,' he said, 'it is people who are the casualties.' Later he elaborated: 'People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.'
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Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.
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Eating vegetarian doesn't mean you have to eat boring, humdrum dishes.
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A lot of people have said a lot of great things about Steve Jobs. And for good reason: he built the world's second-most valuable company, with billions in profits and products that have improved every aspect of our lives. But Steve didn't get there by being a soft, fluffy, Kumbaya-type leader.
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It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God.
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There will be no funeral! Before I get too old and ill, I'll go to South America and live among the Pemon people and meditate. When the time is right, they can throw my body into the volcano.
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In the NBA, as in nowhere else in America, white people are utterly beholden to black people, and they're not about to let us off that easily. It's a kind of very mild payback for the last 500 years.
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The first 'Star Wars' movie had come out in 1977 and had become this huge phenomenon with all the toys and everything - it just kind of swept America. But internationally, it was also a big deal.
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I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.
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The reason I'm really appreciative of everything that's going on around me is because of the fact that I never expected it, and I want to keep that attitude.
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Everybody in America grew up without a father even if they had one. It was the fifties. They were working.
