Lionel Shriver Quotes
As a teenager, I ached to grow up even more than I dreaded to. I craved escape from my parents' impositions on what I believed.
Lionel Shriver
Quotes to Explore
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You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up.
Lakhdar Brahimi
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To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.
Ed Asner
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To be honest, I don't even exactly know how to set up a Google alert. My brother has me on Google alert. So do my parents. But I'm not even sure how it works.
Vanessa Bayer
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Every four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts.
Natasha Hamilton
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
Flea
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.
S. Truett Cathy
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I think, of all the holidays we celebrate, my least favorite is Earth Day. For one thing, I never know what sort of gift is appropriate. A jar of dirt, maybe? And it's not clear to me why Earth even needs a 'day,' since a spin on its axis creates a day. That's like giving a man who owns a shoe store a gift of a pair of shoes.
W. Bruce Cameron
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The challenge in working in politics, particularly if you're working for a political party, is that everyone's a messenger.
Frank Luntz
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Lady Gaga? She's cool! She works really hard. When we would have our dance rehearsals, she wasn't the singer that was like, 'Oh, I'll just stand in front.' She wanted to learn everything - she was doing the dance moves. She's a good dancer.
Caity Lotz
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If there were some recipe that would make all of our children really sane and civic-minded and hugely intelligent, I think we'd probably all do it. But I don't know that there is a recipe for creating that.
Amanda Peet
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Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not.
Baltasar Gracian
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As a teenager, I ached to grow up even more than I dreaded to. I craved escape from my parents' impositions on what I believed.
Lionel Shriver
