Angel Grant Quotes
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is remarkably different. Every major scientific evaluation of GMO technology has concluded that GMOs are safe for human consumption and are a benefit to the environment.
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I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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In Washington, I am a leader on the issues that matter to my community, and I think that's what my constituents want, and also I think that's what voters want. Someone who understands them, who wants to represent them, and who works tirelessly every day on behalf of their interests and their values.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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I tell you, in this country, you don't get much of an education. Throughout high school, through junior college, which is all I went, I didn't know anything about the annihilation of all the Indian nations that were here.
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Going around not fully believing that you're going to die is really problematic because it affects how you think about the future of the planet, about the future of your own life, about the decisions you're making.
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Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.
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'The X Factor' was the final push I needed to have the presence and confidence on stage, which I didn't have before. It's a crash course in the music industry. If you can survive the show, you're ready for the industry.
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The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.
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What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
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The face that thou shalt smite in earnest is bound thereafter to be boneless.
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Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now.
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I don't watch TV. I'd probably be a better person if I did, but it makes me anxious.
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It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with before it can become authoritative.
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Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo is unlikely to disrupt it. Did you get to where you are by accepting the status quo? I didn’t.
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Nothing spells shame like living what feels like a double life.
