Lauren Holmes Quotes
I had this idea that I would write a companion cookbook to 'Barbara the Slut.' The recipes would be like, 'Put the Lucky Charms in the bowl.'
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
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NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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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 just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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What is sought can never produce the seeking.
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I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.
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I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
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Never before has the world been so desperately asking for answers to crucial questions, and never before has the world been so frantically committed to the idea that no answers are possible.
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I had this idea that I would write a companion cookbook to 'Barbara the Slut.' The recipes would be like, 'Put the Lucky Charms in the bowl.'
