Lionel Shriver Quotes
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I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
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The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.
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There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates elements of the music I love - a bit of indie rock, super rhythmic rapping, and lots of synths.
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I'm an immigrant myself. It was a tough road to come to America and work.
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Goals help you overcome short-term problems.
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There's a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.
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With less competition to fear, companies are emboldened to raise their mark-ups and profits. That lifts share prices and thus the wealth of already wealthy shareholders.
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I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Clinton cost John Kerry more votes than he gained for him whenever they appeared together. Imagine being part of a crowd enraptured by the presence of Bill Clinton, and then having to listen to a speech by John Kerry!
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We've got to get back on track to working with them. Because if I and my colleagues are going to continue to attract inward investment from overseas - you know particularly from the big Asian countries - they see Britain as a gateway to Europe. They don't want any doubts cast upon that.
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The newly released movie 'Noah' features a retelling of the creation story that clearly depicts Darwinian evolution transforming a single-cell organism into a monkey. The movie also seems to show magic in scenes more reminiscent of the occult than of the Bible story.
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I think home has become my friends and family, wherever they are.
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Clearly, we are not programmed at birth to behave a certain way based on our gender. Instead, we are trained throughout our lives to conform to our gender norms.
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It's like night and day... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward.
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
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When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action.
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Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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If God were alive today, he would have to be an atheist, because the excrement has hit the air-conditioning big time, big time.
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Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and candidly as you are capable.
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I began … to watch with peculiar alarm lest what I called my philosophic estimate of the human lot in general, should be a mere prose lyric expressing my own pain and consequent bad temper.
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If you knew everyone's story, you would love them. You can't really hate anyone if you know everything that happened to them between their birth and now; why they became the way they became; why they have walls up or down. If you truly know someone, you'd get it.
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When someone is running for reelection in Texas, they're not looking for votes in California or New York.
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Certainly, critics are not all created equal.
