Taylor Caldwell Quotes
The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect the United States with the emerging historical context of the twenty-first century. He has done this remarkably well.
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There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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It's a comforting thought to know that I've got my partner by my side walking through life and all the ups and the downs. I know we can handle it. There's nothing too big or too crazy that's going to tear us apart.
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I'd love to make a thriller.
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When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.
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I went out there, and I fought Anderson Silva, and you know what? I got a big W, and that's massive for my career going forward.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.
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For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must make sure the project's impacts, environmental and otherwise, are considered. In many cases, NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project's impact on their community.
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Naturally, our own irrational demands strike us as having the force of needs, while other people's needs strike us as capricious indulgences.
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I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.
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People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.
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When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
