Monica Hesse Quotes
Genes are mysterious things, still unpredictable after all of our research, flecks of humanity that can destroy lives but, just as often, can teach us to appreciate the strange wonder of our existence.
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.
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My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.
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You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from.
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Make-up is an extension of your clothes.
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I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.
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Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
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The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it.
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As for whether Perl 6 will replace Perl 5, yeah, probably, in about 40 years or so.
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'Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love!
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Whenever the investor sold out in an upswing as soon as the top level of the previous well-recognized bull market was reached, he had a chance in the next bear market to buy back at one third (or better) below his selling price.
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All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.
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I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability.
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Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.
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If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that Big Brother; I call it being a father.
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everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.
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There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.
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Every human being is unique and reacts differently to different food items. A diet that works for you may not necessarily work for your friend.
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Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of alienation; it strengthens the power of resistance.
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Genes are mysterious things, still unpredictable after all of our research, flecks of humanity that can destroy lives but, just as often, can teach us to appreciate the strange wonder of our existence.
