Debra L. Lee Quotes
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
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I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.
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I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night out for less than two pounds!
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The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations – rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.
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I know what it means to do a job... I worked in a factory. I respect people in the service industry. What irritates me more is when people aren't respectful. There's a lot of nonsense behavior, especially in a place like Hollywood. The money, the power, they create little monsters.
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Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
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Please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).
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The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.
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I must have been a really pretentious little girl.
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I always make time for the things that are important to me.
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We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.
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I spent 10 years in New York doing theater.
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When I was suffering with depression, people weren't talking about depression. It had a stigma.
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Art's everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.
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I think the best SF writers are very aware of what we, in the scientific community, are doing, thinking, and discovering.
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Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.
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Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.
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Strong racial pride always entails intense awareness of an inferior other. For the North Koreans, foreigners are inferior - even the friendly ones.
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Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will be doubled by 1960 or so.
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The dominant question for us with regard to literature has become, 'What does this have to do with me, with life as I know it?' That's the question answered by all these books about how Proust was actually a neuroscientist or how Proust can teach you emotional intelligence.
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The phrase "global citizen" always gets tossed around with my work, and part of it is that, clearly, talking about being a global citizen is the only way we can talk about participating in globalization without feeling like assholes.
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A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.
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The importance of gratitude is never forgotten.
