Lynn Coady Quotes
There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily get, my books. That was a hard one to swallow, to not feel slighted by.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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The strong desire to include every vital component of life instead of excluding part of them for the sake of too narrow and dogmatic an approach has characterized my whole life.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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I buy records - vinyl. I have a record player at home.
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With some people there is such a thing as the habit of betrayal.
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Photography is something you learn to love very quickly. I know that many, many things are going to ask me to have their pictures taken and I will take them all.
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Writing is such a good thing to do because you can't really get bored with it. If you're bored with writing, you're bored with life.
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I take the good with the bad. I can't love people in slices.
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There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily get, my books. That was a hard one to swallow, to not feel slighted by.
