Lionel Shriver Quotes
Perhaps scientists will eventually discover that we are all clockwork bunnies, and our experience of volition is an electro-chemical illusion.
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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I love my boys very much. I want only the best for them and am committed to being a devoted father.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
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For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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Souffles don't deserve their reputation as potential disasters.
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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I was, like, a really embarrassing, precocious child.
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Music reality shows are a good thing, especially for those seeking a career in music.
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I'm free to see things objectively because I don't consider myself American, and I don't consider myself British or Indian. I'm kind of an amalgam or mongrel of a lot of different places and experiences. In a lot of ways it's been a good thing for me. It's enabled me to do what I do on 'The Daily Show.'
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I don't want reporters to talk to me because I'm a revolutionary and if it got out that I'm basically friendly with Obama it would hurt Obama.
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To truly care about this country is to demonstrate that you care about her politics the same when you're winning as when you're losing.
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I often make films about subjects I don't really know much about. Maybe it's laziness, but I don't go in there having done a tonne of research; the research happens while I'm making the film.
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The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.
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Perhaps scientists will eventually discover that we are all clockwork bunnies, and our experience of volition is an electro-chemical illusion.
