Lionel Shriver Quotes
Ever since Hiroshima, we've been faced with the depressing fact that you cannot un-invent something.
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I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do.
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As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's going to stop.
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Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.
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Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit.
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The market is so competitive. There are so many products that are similar. So we are forced to invest in innovative research in new products that are one or two years ahead of the market.
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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I'm at this point in my career where I'm trying to step away from the realm of fine arts, because I think it's a very exclusive, very restrictive place to be. What I want to be able to do is to change the lives of people with the same materials they deal with every day.
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There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.
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I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.
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If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a man.
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So I have been careful about where I go and who I hang out with because if you tell someone the wrong thing, then it's everywhere.
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Don't wear dresses that are too tight. A size number is just a number. If the fit is comfortable, it will look more elegant.
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We have great international experts within India telling us that the climate is changing, and actions has to be taken, otherwise China and India would be the countries most to suffer from climate change.
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A national festival is an occasion to refine and rebuild the national character.
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We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.
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Nothing is written in stone, as a career is an unpredictable journey.
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I live for the Red Sox. I thoroughly enjoy them. For whatever reason, baseball has been a lot more fun for me in recent years. I loosely follow the Patriots and I root for them. I loosely follow the Celtics and then it gets to playoff time and I don't miss a game. Same with the Bruins. I'm not the diehard fan anymore.
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I wasn't doing it to shock anybody or to be rebellious or to get attention making "Heart-Shaped Glasses" with Marilyn Manson. I was more proud of that than anything because it took a lot of strength and bravery to put myself out there like that. It was a risk. I'm glad that I did it because usually the best things I've done have come from the biggest risks. Thirteen was a risk and that was amazing.
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If you want to find out if someone's a taker, it's not actually that useful to know what they've accomplished. What you want to want to know is how they explain them.
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Basketball used to be my top priority.
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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Ever since Hiroshima, we've been faced with the depressing fact that you cannot un-invent something.
