Mona Simpson Quotes
In every person's face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother, you always looked at her mouth.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.
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What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage.
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Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.
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No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.
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The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
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Usually when you get a script from actors, you don't have high expectations.
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At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.
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Being a big fan of 'Glee,' I want to do the show justice.
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No man can visualize four dimensions, except mathematically … I think in four dimensions, but only abstractly. The human mind can picture these dimensions no more than it can envisage electricity. Nevertheless, they are no less real than electro-magnetism, the force which controls our universe, within, and by which we have our being.
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I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away.
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I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was very straight-laced, but I had a friend whose mother spoke in tongues. I was just wild for this family. My own parents were older, and they were so over-protective. I just loved the 'letting go' that would happen when I went to church with my friend.
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I saturated myself with the improv community.
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Documentaries make a difference.
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Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.
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I don't like to watch myself. I can't get into the story; I'm too critical.
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I write about two hours a day, and I write in fits and spurts - 45 minutes here, a half-hour there - and when I get stuck, which happens often, I take the dogs for a walk. But during the time when I'm not actually writing, I'm thinking.
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I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way to set about it is to constitute it as Sparta and Venice were constituted; to place it in a strong position, and so to fortify it that no one will dream of taking it by a sudden assault; and, on the other hand, not to make it so large as to appear formidable to its neighbors. It should in this way be able to enjoy its form of government for a long time. For war is made on a commonwealth for two reasons: to subjugate it, and for fear of being subjugated by it.
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It is painful beyond measure to lose a loving father and grandmother to violence.
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A person who uses party as a verb is a person who will walk into a shop and walk out wearing a rubber jumpsuit.
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In every person's face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother, you always looked at her mouth.
