Lynn Coady Quotes
In the late sixties, when revolution and upheaval were everywhere, feminists were ridiculed for focusing on housework.
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I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
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Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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U.N. Security Council resolutions are only as effective as their enforcement.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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No one person is an island.
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
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I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.
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Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.
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Reinforcement is being right.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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My human rights activism has been widely met with encouragement and support. Ahangarani should earn plaudits, not only for her cinematic achievements, but also for her humanitarian deeds and her commitment to increased rights and freedoms for all.
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The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.
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The essential nature cannot be corporeal, yet it is also clear that this soul is present in a particular bodily part, and this one of the parts having control over the rest.
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Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act.
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The next great technology revolution might be around the corner, but it won't automatically improve most people's lives. That will depend on politics, which is indeed ugly but also inescapable.
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In the late sixties, when revolution and upheaval were everywhere, feminists were ridiculed for focusing on housework.
