Candice Millard Quotes
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My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.
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We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
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But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
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There is sometimes a tendency to assume that everyone in this great country has adequate housing. But when you go to certain places, certain neighborhoods, both urban and rural, you find out that's not the case, and I think we have to do much more.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
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I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.
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You can write whatever you want about me in websites and newspapers, but no one really knows me. They get the idea that I'm a tough, heroic figure, but I'm a sensitive pussycat.
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I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American to rededicate themselves to the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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I am a hopeless romantic who falls in lust and gets in trouble. I love my work and am very productive, yet I always find time to play.
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Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
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I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma.
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I'm a big fan of monsters. Number one, they're fun, and two, they're such great ways to access the subconscious fears and beliefs of any group of people.
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Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one.
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I think I have never yet done any work with the aim of symbolizing a particular idea, but the fact that a symbol is sometimes discovered or remarked upon is valuable for me because it makes it easier to accept the inexplicable nature of my hobbies, which constantly preoccupy me.
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You just have to have the right gear and a few people to put you in motion with a good aesthetic and the film will take care of itself.
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I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.
