Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
Under a brazen sky that proclaimed all the things we had thought our limits were merely our prejudices.
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
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I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care.
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I live for my daughter. Every decision I make is about her and for her. It's great. She's perfect.
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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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Perhaps our own fin-de-siècle decadence takes the form, not of libertarian excess, but of the kind of over-the-top puritanism we see in political correctness and the assorted moral certainties of physical fitness fanatics, New Agers and animal-rights activists.
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Did I have a responsibility to discuss issues? Absolutely. Bobby Dylan was discussing issues – Disney wasn’t.
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75: The computing field is always in need of new cliches: Banality sooths our nerves.
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That was the danger Samuel Butler jestingly prophesied in Erewhon, the danger that the human being might become a means whereby the machine perpetuated itself and extended its dominion.
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Some of my friends are giving me law books. I love reading those. It's like my relaxation.
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I don't think you can approach any piece of art with boundaries or rules. I think respect is a very important thing, but I also think what we discover along the way is really important.
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We talk different languages, eat different foods, but all humanity has one ancestor, which started from one person, which started from one god.
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Most diets would have you cutting things out from your diet; they are about denial and discipline.
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I am not one of those who thinks that Congress needs to be in session 24 hours a day interfering in peoples' lives.
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I have the softest beard in the world. As far as growing it, it doesn't itch, and it's so non-intrusive. But I am so sick of hair on my face and on my head.
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But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.
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I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I understand, as a woman who probably would have been burned in the marketplace for witchcraft only about 200 years ago, that I need the First Amendment more than anybody does. And that even if I am repelled by child pornography or Bob Guccione's productions, that I have to protect those things, because essentially it's in my self-interest to do so.
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I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.
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Farewells have reasons. If you can sense the reality, time is the medicine.
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The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it by your own yardstick.
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Under a brazen sky that proclaimed all the things we had thought our limits were merely our prejudices.
