Taryn Simon Quotes
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
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Bitcoin is one of the most viral concepts I've ever encountered.
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I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.
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As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
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You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
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The importance of a problem should not be judged by the number of pages devoted to it.
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You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.
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When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating people. You need to be imitating how they make their work, how they structure it, how they design the pieces. It gives you chops; it gives you moves.
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The majority of my work is about preparation.
