Lionel Shriver Quotes
Overly vigorous investigations of ominously ill-defined 'bullying' can themselves constitute a form of bullying.
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You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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If I'm in work mode and going to meetings, I'll make an effort and dress up, but when I'm at home or just chilling, I'm in beanies and jeans and sneakers.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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I think all these pop cultural media often reflect conversations we're having in the real world at that moment in time. I think one of the big conversations we're having as a culture is we thought we'd solved sexism and racism, and we're realizing more and more that we haven't.
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I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.
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Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.
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I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.
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Art was what I originally started out to do and music came second at first. I had a year at art college but I left because it was too much like school. I give all my paintings away to people I like.
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You gotta have a swine to show you where the truffles are.
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Just like you need to strengthen your core physically with exercise, you also need to strength your core spiritually.
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When I kept a diary, I realised that it was all moanings and depression, and I think that is quite common.
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I drank too much, only champagne.
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I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.
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My mom was always very, very careful with my mind: what I saw and didn't see.
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I would snack on crisps and chocolate and my meals weren't the best. I ate lots of steak with creamy sauces, chips and peas, washed down with wine and a pudding.
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The thing about going back to El Paso, it's overwhelming sometimes. I look at the support that I get and the success that I've had, and I can't walk anywhere without being spotted. My hair might be the biggest crime in this situation.
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However useful may be the National Parks and Forests of the West for those affording the Pullman fare to reach them, what is needed by the bulk of the American population is something nearer home.
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A new regime would have become the United States’ responsibility. Conceivably, this could have led the United States into a more or less permanent occupation of a country that could not govern itself, but where the rule of a foreign occupier would be increasingly resented.
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While I was obsessed with my own misery, there were other things occurring in the human universe.
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Any time we would talk to another VC, our investors would talk him out of it: 'This is not a good company'... So we were really stuck with our existing investors for the next round.
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When will we learn that we can't allow our politicians to bully the world without someone bullying back eventually?
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Overly vigorous investigations of ominously ill-defined 'bullying' can themselves constitute a form of bullying.
