Lionel Shriver Quotes
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
Rachel Bloom -
I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
Sadie Frost -
I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.
Dana Carvey -
I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
Kate DiCamillo -
I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
Nargis Fakhri -
Estimates of the ionic mobilities vary over a considerable range; but in any event, the positive ionic defect is much more mobile in the solid than in the liquid, and its mobility varies very little with the temperature.
Lars Onsager
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College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I was always the type of person that whenever I started something I finished it. And, I was always held accountable for my actions.
Victor Cruz -
I'm not an overly happy person. There are times when I'm happy, and that's usually in my private life.
Pat Burns -
Looking back, I got the bed I wanted and I lay in it. I didn't want to go to America. If you want to join that world, you have to go and live there, and that was something I could not have done. I am very much about family. It doesn't matter where I live, but I feel very needful of my people around me. Besides, theatre is my first love.
Felicity Kendal -
Preparing and cooking squid is easier than most fish. The only thing to remember is not to cook it for too long.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic.
Pankaj Mishra
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If civilization has an opposite, it is war.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
I've never set out to teach anyone anything. It's been more of an expression of my views and feelings than sitting down and deciding 'What is today's message?' And I do think that, although I never, again, sat down consciously and thought about this, I do think judging, even for my own daughter, that children respond to that than to 'thought for the day.'
Joanne Rowling -
Power breeds responsibilities, in international affairs as in domestic - or even private. To dodge or disclaim these responsibilities is one form of the abuse of power.
Irving Kristol -
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell -
It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
'This is the core of the galaxy,' Horseface said. 'This is the very center of everything there is. A huge black hole eating up the galaxy. The end of everything.'
Clifford D. Simak
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Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.
William Faulkner -
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
Pythagoras -
I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
Zoe Lister-Jones -
Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
Abraham Maslow -
Happiness isn't a position. It's a trajectory.
Lionel Shriver