Pat Cadigan Quotes
Because if you didn’t speak your truth, there was always something that would speak it for you that much louder.
Quotes to Explore
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Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a sauce calmly, without the usual panic about overcooking the fish.
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It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
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God made them as stubble to our swords.
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I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
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My father had no influence on my political beliefs, and to imply otherwise is wrong and irresponsible.
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You never know how long a player has left, especially with strikers. Once you turn 30, as a striker, you are usually on the way down, and playing from the age of 16, at such a high level, has to take its toll.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.
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Children don't just play any more - they're far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end, you're actually doing more damage to your children by trying to hot-house them. It's far better to remain a calm parent.
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I met Mr. Hoover socially. I never talked to him about anything connected with his work. We just met him.
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Be very nervous of the shaky hands.
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Because if you didn’t speak your truth, there was always something that would speak it for you that much louder.
