Audrey Niffenegger Quotes
Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.
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The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.
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I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.
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In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective.
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Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.
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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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Investing in people is the single most important thing in the knowledge economy. Traditionally, wealth was defined by land and natural resources. Today the most important resources is between our ears.
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It is often better for a person to recognize a sin than to do a good deed. Recognizing a sin makes a person humble. Doing a good deed often can feed a person’s pride.
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There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind ... the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it's successful; if it doesn't it has failed.
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I was aware that the loosening of mortgage credit terms for subprime borrowers increased financial risk. But I believed then, as now, that the benefits of broadened home ownership are worth the risk.
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'Blood sweat and tears homie I'm made of it'
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If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.
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The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.
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You get married and have kids, and you get sick of having the government take your money and tell you what to do. I'm just a conservative guy.
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Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again. "So he can sneak up on people," said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking.
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I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leaving each other alone was killing us.
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Lazy geniuses! There are no such men. Laziness and genius never go hand in hand. Each excludes the other. Laziness is the best proof of the absence of genius.
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Nothing comes at all -- never anything. And I cannot accustom myself to that. It is this monotony, this absolute fixity in life, that is the hardest thing for me to endure. I should like to go away from here. Go away? But where and how? I do not know, and I stay.
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Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
