Audrey Niffenegger Quotes
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.
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Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.
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We're not looking at banning all weapons.
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If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.
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No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.
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America is addicted to wars of distraction.
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People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.
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Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.
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Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.
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Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.
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Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
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I am the best. There is nobody better than me.
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There are several books that I have-the Physics of Star Trek, Star Trek and Business, there are manuals on command style and countless scholarly papers that have been written about the significance of Next Generation.
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When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read it to us. I love that book.
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I wake up with the story in my head, so I really like to be at my desk about five minutes after I wake up. So I don't get dressed. I put on a bathrobe, I make tea and sit at my desk.
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Private sector labor market flows provide additional indications of the strength of the labor market. For example, the quits rate has tended to be pro-cyclical, since more workers voluntarily quit their jobs when they are more confident about their ability to find new ones and when firms are competing more actively for new hires.
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I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.
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You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.
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I like manual things, doing things with my hands, the feeling of touching.
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Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.
