Madalyn Murray O'Hair Quotes
I'm not proud of having been married -I've had five affairs, all of them real wingdings. I've enjoyed every goddamned minute of them, but sooner or later I've outgrown every one of them, and when I did I got fed up and threw them out. If they can't keep up with me, the hell with them.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
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I wasn't completely comfortable in the footy culture because I wasn't that comfortable in my own skin, which I am now. I'd fit in better now, but I don't miss the training and the injuries you get playing footy.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions.
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I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.
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The things that interest me are less to do with perhaps finding myself and more to do with surviving and mercy and forgiveness.
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What I know is that if you're going to play half-court, you'd better have the greatest executioners of half-court basketball. If you run, you test the stamina and willpower of the other team. That's what I learned as a player.
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I do feel very American. I think it's something I'm proud of and proud to be by chance born here. Honestly, that's something I think about.
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I'm not proud of having been married -I've had five affairs, all of them real wingdings. I've enjoyed every goddamned minute of them, but sooner or later I've outgrown every one of them, and when I did I got fed up and threw them out. If they can't keep up with me, the hell with them.
