Lionel Shriver Quotes
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If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.
Pat Oliphant -
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
Ralph Ellison -
I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.
Barry Bonds -
There is simply no limitation on the realistic power of the U.N. over us.
G. Edward Griffin -
I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.
Uta Hagen -
It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'
Zadie Smith
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Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
Warren Buffett -
Even though I believe in mass social movements, I'm uncomfortable in crowds.
Naomi Klein -
Crede mihi, bene qui latuit bene vixit, et intraFortunam debet quisque manere suam.
Ovid -
The Self is only one. Do you feel hurt if you blame yourself or scorn yourself for your errors? If you hold the Self there is no second person to scorn you. When you see the world you have lost hold of the Self. On the contrary, hold the Self and the world will not appear.
Ramana Maharshi -
Leader of the Chorus: An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
Aristophanes -
The Obama representatives like Robert Gibbs attack people viciously, but people like me will not be silent and will answer them back.
Donald Trump
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Cara was six years younger. She slept in my bed for years.
Poppy Delevingne -
As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then inevitably doubt has to accompany it.
Dinaw Mengestu -
I was an editor for supplemental math, science, and literature programs for the primary grades and became very well versed in elementary curriculum, particularly PreK-2.
Doreen Cronin -
The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.
Constance Baker Motley -
I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world.
Dennis Kucinich -
Honestly, my smartest business decision was to never do anything that I didn't love doing.
Bennett Miller
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I might move to Finland, at least for a while, to learn the language a bit better, 'cause you don't learn any language better than in the country itself.
Floor Jansen Nightwish -
I'm analytical as an actor, and one of the things Quentin did was free me from that.
David Carradine -
Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.
Laura Miller -
It is forbidden to dwell in the vicinity of any of those with an evil tongue, and all the more to sit with them and listen to their words.
Maimonides -
With all due respect to Taylor Lautner and his 18-pack abs, my werewolf is going to be 100 times cooler!
Michael Trevino -
We probably give newspaper columnists too much weight.
Lionel Shriver