Emily Matchar Quotes
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
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Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.
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I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.
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In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
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I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.
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I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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I knew Childress was going to help me because my crew told me on the radio. I really appreciate what Richard did, but that is typical of people in this sport.
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I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.
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And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air.
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I don't know how much I believe in redemptive stories, even though people want them and strive for them.
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I think the type of actor I am, I tend to play strong leading female characters. The shows I've been on happen to be science fiction genre.
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I believe that it should be perfectly lawful to print even things that outrage the pruderies and prejudices of the general, so long as any honest minority, however small, wants to read them. The remedy of the majority is not prohibition, but avoidance.
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All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is taken from us without our consent. The babes we bear in anguish and carry in our arms are not ours.
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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.
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Does the burden of “do it yourself” fall harder on women than men?
