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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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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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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I got mail from a prison once.
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It used to upset me - now it makes me sad - to see people use patriotism and our troops as a pawn in their political argument. Because I know personally, growing up in a military family, the sacrifice that is made on a daily basis.
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When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate.
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Prayer is man's greatest power!
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My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius.
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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.
