Lynn Coady Quotes
I've never understood people who treat their loved ones worse and with less respect than they would a total stranger or minor acquaintance.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.
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The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic governance it will be an anchor for all of West Africa. Africa needs a strong Nigeria.
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I would love nothing more than me and my family getting green cards, going to L.A. for a year, sitting down with the big Hollywood studios and coming up with the most advanced and awesome Internet distribution platform for movies. It would make Hollywood more money than cinemas, DVDs, and everything else combined.
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It might sound chauvinistic, but there is a sad reality in rock music: Bands who depend on support from females inevitably crash and burn.
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There wasn't really one time in my life where I was like, 'I want to be a model!'
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When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.
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I've never understood people who treat their loved ones worse and with less respect than they would a total stranger or minor acquaintance.
