Cynthia Lord Quotes
Jason tilts his head toward me, his hand moving slyly across his book. Stupid. Speech. Woman.
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We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
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Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
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Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
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I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.
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Various channels of dialogue must be kept open to build trust. I will meet North Korea's leader if it is needed to develop relations between the two Koreas.
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Littlenecks and cherrystones are chewy and sweet on the half shell with mignonette, served raw. But a well-cooked clam is a toothsome, tender thing, full of that magical stuff known as clam liquor.
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I could live on challah bread, the Jewish kosher bread, quite happily.
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I have a Facebook page for me and my friends and a Twitter page.
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My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.
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The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development is action, and character fulfillment is resolution.
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There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool, then obviously the Beatles, and the football club. That's what people in Liverpool are passionate about.
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Love, to the inferior man, remains almost wholly a physical matter. The heroine he most admires is the one who offers the grossest sexual provocation; the hero who makes his wife roll her eyes is a perambulating phallus.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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With their tinted windows up, the cars of the rich go like dark eggs down the roads of Delhi. Every now and then an egg will crack open—a woman’s hand, dazzling with gold bangles, stretches out an open window, flings an empty mineral water bottle onto the road—and then the window goes up, and the egg is resealed.
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Jason tilts his head toward me, his hand moving slyly across his book. Stupid. Speech. Woman.
