Madalyn Murray O'Hair Quotes
The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy.
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My mornings go by so fast I forget breakfast. Lunch - that's turned out to be my biggest meal. I like tuna fish with low-fat mayonnaise and celery, egg whites and garlic. It's delish.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
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I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
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The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.
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You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.
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My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'
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If I have a choice between putting my kids to bed and going to a party, I'll put my kids to bed. If I have a choice of going to a restaurant or having friends round, I'll have friends round. Every time.
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'I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day,' said Mr. Irwine. 'No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things'.
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I always do a lot of work around characters to make them real people because, oftentimes, they really are a sliver of a person. Even with truly wonderful writers, women characters are there to emote, and they're often incredibly chaste or worthy. Or they're a 'different type of woman', which is the worst.
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I've just become obsessed with ballroom dancing. I signed up for the introductory course, which was like a four-week thing. By the end of it, I was hooked. I love it. It's sort of flirty, but it's not sexual. I can't quit until I've got it down and I can really dance. I'm there four or five times a week.
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Violence in Darfur is cataclysmic.
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The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy.
