Ekaterina Sedia Quotes
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Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.
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As a musician usually music is your way out.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.
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Sweet is good. I'm not a fan of deep-fried things.
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Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace.
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I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.
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Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.
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I think we are intrinsically prone to being irrational and superstitious. A lot of it comes from our fear of the unknown and the fear of a lack of control over our fate.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
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I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible.
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Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates.
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Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in writing.
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God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist.
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Outstanding leaders have a sense of mission, a belief in themselves and the value of their work.
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Believe that none of the effort you put into coming closer to God is ever wasted - even if in the end you don't achieve what you are striving for.
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Given that some social processes must convey inherent constraints, the choice is among various mixtures of persuasion, force, and cultural inducement. The less of one, the more of the others. The degree of freedom that is possible is therefore tied to the extent to which people respond to persuasion or inducement.
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One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
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There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past.
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Blood always called to blood, no matter how distant.
