Fiona Shaw Quotes
I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.
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If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.
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My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented!
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.
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I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have.
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Love is more than one thing.
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The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
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I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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In my role as a spokesperson for Amnesty International U.S.A. and as a supporter of various charitable causes including Unlock Iran, a campaign to release prisoners of conscience in Iran, I have never been faced with the threat of intimidation or arrest.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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Bald is the new black!
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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Values are more important than money.
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People want sex education out of the schools. They believe sex education causes promiscuity. Hey, I took algebra, but I never do math.
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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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People can be taught to hate. And people can be taught to spell. But apparently, it's one or the other.
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Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.
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The fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.
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I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.
