Norma Fox Mazer Quotes
All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen.
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I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
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We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.
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Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well.
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I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.
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I don't ever wish I was somebody else.
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One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.
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I'm a political conservative.
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Costa Rica, with its tourist-based economy and lack of a national army, has focused on keeping safe its beaches, parks and other public draws. It is one if the safest countries in Central America based on the number of homicides.
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When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.
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Buckwheat, like Marmite and durian, is a seriously divisive foodstuff, so it needs a seriously capable defence team if it's ever going to make it on to most people's dinner tables.
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Everyone who watches me play knows I am an honest player.
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I am excited about this. We've got half of our goal. I'd love to see us get a little bit more than half our goal and not be so deeply into this thing going into Sunday, but I feel good about everything.
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God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.
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The people who are making a lot of money and eating at McDonald's and watching MTV and have square eyeballs, they're over there. And then maybe there's like five other people left in America and I'm just waiting for them to come up with something interesting.
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Love will not just heal your life or mine. Love will heal the world.
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Under the freest constitution ignorant people are still slaves.
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I'm most enthused by the younger people...and I wouldn't have said that two years ago. I spoke at two college campuses in Wisconsin and the students weren't interested. Public Service was a dirty word to them. Now they see it differently. They see you can come together and have a positive impact. I'm encouraged because they now see that we can win on these issues.
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It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
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Television has always been a conversation. Movies come along and they're kind of like three-ring circuses, and there's a new one next week.
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It's important to slow down, every now and then, for no other reason than to call someone to say 'Hi.' It doesn't have to be a long conversation. Just calling out of the blue does more to let someone know you still care about them than nearly anything else.
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All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen.
