Brittany Maynard Quotes
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.
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There's nothing fun about 30 people standing around watching you, like, pretend to pleasure someone. Nothing enjoyable about it, believe me.
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For the first time I'm free to be myself.
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I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.
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Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.
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Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.
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In some cases, it's not just about cleaning up the factories. It's about cleaning up the nearby rivers and lakes that have been tainted with heavy metals.
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Social Security is the only thing most Americans can count on to keep them out of poverty during retirement.
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Pain is never permanent.
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You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.
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Over the years, I have seen the power of the oceans to excite, feed, and sustain people. I have also seen them undergo a growing onslaught of attacks, from destructive fishing practices to rising acidification.
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But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.
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Once you have a central character who announces in the first five minutes of the show that he feels whooped by life and that he's had enough, I'm in. I'm hooked.
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He that's ungrateful, has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
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You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
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I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
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I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is, that people act as they are disposed to, but they like to feel afterwards that they were right and so they invent systems that approve of their dispositions.
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I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
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I believe this choice is ethical, and what makes it ethical is it is a choice.
