Lionel Shriver Quotes
We vainly fancy ourselves above the ugly informing and paranoia of the right-wing McCarthy era, but in the 21st century, the Left has fashioned a mirror image.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.
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There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
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Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.
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No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it. Because it'll never look good. Any hesitation in the fitting room and just walk away.
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I'm rap's vigilante. I'm out for justice.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
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The one thing about art is you can't question it. Everyone is looking at everyone else to find out what's cool. No one knows what's cool.
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
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There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.
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Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.
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The Heartland Institute, which people mostly only know in terms of the fact that it hosts these annual conferences of climate change skeptics or deniers, it's important to know that the Heartland Institute is first and foremost a free market think tank. It's not a scientific organization.
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English was great because I could just write my opinion, and that was good enough. I was terrible in Math, even though I had amazing Math teachers. My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.
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Anthropology is separated from mass reading, and that is something that bothered Margaret Mead. She always said that she wrote everything for her grandmother, in a way that her grandmother could understand what she was saying.
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We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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A beautiful 35-year old ain't as good-looking as an ugly 19-year old.
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I like the fact that people either think I'm incredibly gorgeous or flippin ugly.
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We vainly fancy ourselves above the ugly informing and paranoia of the right-wing McCarthy era, but in the 21st century, the Left has fashioned a mirror image.
