Lynn Coady Quotes
When you're not sure your anger is justified, the thing to do is ask yourself exactly where it's coming from.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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Do you honestly think that if Senator Santorum becomes president, we're going to get rid of contraceptives?
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The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
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California is an easy place to be an Asian woman engineer.
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Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.
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It must be horrible having people scared to talk to you. But I think it's kinda cool that I don't really know anyone in that way.
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I haven't checked, but I highly suspect that chickens evolved from an egg-laying ancestor, which would mean that there were, in fact, eggs before there were chickens. Genius.
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I wore a mullet to the Grammys! I have no fear.
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You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.
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The philosophers likewise assume that in Nature there is nothing in vain, so that everything that is not the product of human industry serves a certain purpose, which may be known or unknown to us.
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If that was on my road the council would be like 'Get that down, its a deathtrap!'
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A curious paradox: people have only the narrowest private interest in mind when they act, yet they are at the same time more than ever determined in their behavior by the instincts of the mass. ... The diversity of individual goals is immaterial in face of the identity of the determining forces.
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It is generally argued that our experience of free will presents a compelling mystery: On the one hand, we can't make sense of it in scientific terms; on the other, we feel that we are the authors of our own thoughts and actions.
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Peyton Fahrquhar was dead; his body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek bridge.
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When I was young, my parents made me listen to old music and watch Jimmy Durante. I fell in love with the whole mystique of acting and entertainment.
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There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true.
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Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.
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When you don't have much money, you get creative. There's so much money that gets wasted on big movie sets. But when you don't have much money, you improvise.
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You're going to be hearing a lot about one scrappy president.
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God does not deal our karma to us as a punishment. Karma is a manifestation of an impersonal law as well as a personal one. The purpose of our bearing our karma is that karma is our teacher. We must learn the lessons of how and why we misused the energy of life. Until that day comes when we recognize the Law of God as a Law of Love, we will probably encounter difficulties. But if we will only hasten that day's coming into our own life, we will recognize that karma is actually grace and beauty and joy. And love and awareness and hope! -EM
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What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn't everyone's life become a work of art? Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not our life?
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When you're not sure your anger is justified, the thing to do is ask yourself exactly where it's coming from.
