Brandon Mull Quotes
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.
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I fed my ego, but not my soul.
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To be silent is to be passive.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.
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We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.
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For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
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You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's the purpose of life, partly. Your life is better.
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I have a pit bull. He's a rescue. He's adorable.
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It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice.
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Women's bodies have become a real battleground for politics.
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Information is always to be treasured, Raul. It is behind only love and honesty in a person’s attempt to understand the universe.
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I'm really into antiques. But really into it because of my father, who got me into them in the first place. He's an interior designer and he's really into going to antique shows and getting up really early on Sundays and driving out to these weird little towns north of Hamilton.
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The principle of inorganic equality was for them crucial. Men of the stamp of Jahn and Arndt had no notion that it was Equality that had first sounded the cry of 'Vive la nation' in the September massacres of 1792.
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Most people are embarrassed to admit there's another human being that's in control of them, that your heart beats three times as fast because you've given yourself to someone else.
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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
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If I had millions and millions and millions of dollars, I'd leave a large portion to the 42nd Street library. That's why - that was my hangout, the reading rooms, the North and South reading rooms. I'd go there, and my God, I couldn't believe I had access to all of these books. That was my university.
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Wow! I can hardly believe I finished Beyonders.
