Audrey Niffenegger Quotes
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It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.
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Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.
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We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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I just can't read music.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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When I get drafty cold air in my ears, I would get an earache and get sick. I had to make sure I hustled and stayed well for my shows that I played.
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Those who want to cut Social Security are prepared to take hostages, manufacture crises, and use scare tactics to undermine the retirement security of Americans.
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
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It's kind of cool to have the whole country at your back. Not just a city, but the whole country is rooting for you.
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To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.
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I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.
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A nation never falls but by suicide.
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The Philippines is where Asia wears a smile. Beautiful products can only be made by happy people.
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Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh heavier than lead, and with their wings exceedingly small. He did not, and that ought to show something. It is only in order to shield your ignorance that you put the Lord at every turn to the refuge of a miracle.
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'Me, I am convinced it is the truth,' said M. Bouc, becoming more and more enamoured of his theory.
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No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
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Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn't have them, we'd still be living in tents and eating buffalo.
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I was a street performer for two years.
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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
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The record industry is a world within itself.
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So dazzling was the spread of constellations that it had the impact of a vision, of some hidden insight. I drove home saying to myself: The dead, too, are like this, blazing within us - invisibly.
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I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
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Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.
