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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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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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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The list of Scarborough's rock credentials could go on forever.
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What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in the mathematical sense.
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It's only recently that we've discovered that the artist's inner self is somehow more important than the public world. I'm happier to create exterior pieces for the world rather than to express something I deeply feel or wish to say.
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I'm outspoken and I'm headstrong.
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If they tried that in Australia we'd have kicked their ass!
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While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the southern Appalachian folktales. He's much the same Jack who climbs the beanstalk, vulnerable and clever and opportunistic.
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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.
