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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Despite the efforts of some parents, children still tend to act out the traditional sex roles of our culture. The child's peer group may have more of an influence over this than the parents.
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Before we can speak God's message, we must learn to listen. The opened ear comes before the opened mouth.
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I really want a Christmas in New York one year, when it's snowing. Like, it's Christmas morning, and you have a fight with someone, and you run down the street, and it's snowing, and you can't find them.
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I often draw from people in my own experience to base a character on, going back to my days with Mike Leigh.
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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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.
