Lisa Madigan Quotes
Consumers don't need to be forced to pay billions for so-called smart technology to know how to reduce their utility bills. We know to turn down the heat or air conditioning and shut off the lights.
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.
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There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out of town for a couple of months and play with toys.
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They hate whom they fear.
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As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.
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I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don't think. So I worked very hard to keep myself suppressed. And that's one of the reasons I wasn't gregarious with the gallery.
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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
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You cannot put 50 years of the Marvel universe into a movie. It's impossible.
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In these difficult times, the feeling of solidarity with my Jewish co-religionists is doubly gratifying and comforting in view of the deprivation of rights with which German Jews are now forced to live.
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Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.
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To come from no voice, no power, and to be able to achieve what I have means that only my own personal vision holds me back.
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In the smart home of the future, there should be a robot designed to talk to you. With enough display technology, connectivity, and voice recognition, this human-interface robot or head-of-household robot will serve as a portal to the digital domain. It becomes your interface to your robot-enabled home.
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Consumers don't need to be forced to pay billions for so-called smart technology to know how to reduce their utility bills. We know to turn down the heat or air conditioning and shut off the lights.
