Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.
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I love books.
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What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.
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It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.
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The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.
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I try to live my life, do what I want, and just let everything else follow along.
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I had a really hard time when I was 16, 17, 18. I started with the eating disorder in high school.
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What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?
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One of the reasons religions are widely accepted is spiritual laziness and its resulting fear.
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For whatever reason, people just like to come out and say whatever they want to say about you when you're on TV.
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I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.
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Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown.
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I think of my career as something apart from myself.
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I journal a lot for nobody but myself. Just to get my thoughts out and to clear my mind. That's very therapeutic to me.
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God - God's the wrong word - goddess or nature will conspire to transform you in a way you couldn't have imagined.
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I know how to create and make people feel something. Honestly, if I didn't do this, I would just have some minimum-wage job in New Mexico, and I would go out on the weekends and make just enough money to pay my insurance and pay for a couple beers, and that would be it.
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Perhaps arising from a fascination with animals, biology seemed the most interesting of sciences to me as a child.
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We have already observed that the fortunes or misfortunes of individuals are dependent upon the maintenance of the independence and progress of the whole nation.
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I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle when I was 9 and a single barrel .410 shotgun when I was 10.
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Something tells me a bomb would pretty much take our bus out.
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Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.
