Maggie Hassan Quotes
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I'm someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you're in a room with other people.
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There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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I like things simple.
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I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.
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I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.
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I made some good pictures, and I made some bad ones. I wasn't trying to build an image, though; I was trying to build a life for myself.
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I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
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I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
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I've had to try and find a way over the years of writing narratively that doesn't really require you to sit down and work out what the story's about. You're brought into a sort of sequence of images that have that emotional resonance, but it's kind of irrelevant what the actual story is. It's taken me maybe 13 albums or something to work that out.
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One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on some level, functional and in some cases, remarkably resilient. This is kind of amazing.
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During the playoffs, I tone down the Internet usage.
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I think of my actions every day: what seems to be important and what isn't.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
