Lisa Murkowski Quotes
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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Theater dates very quickly.
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Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.
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Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.
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In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
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I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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I think I'm going to be around awhile.
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It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me.
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My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
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Let your children go if you want to keep them.
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Here is a bulletin from CBS News: in Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas. The first reports say that President Kennedy has been seriously wounded by this shooting.
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Beauty is momentary in the mind - The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing. So gardens die, their meek breath scenting The cowl of winter, done repenting. So maidens die, to the auroral Celebration of a maiden's choral.
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Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.
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I've probably got lots of heroes. One is a chap called Charles Campbell - he is a wonderful chap. We cooked together in a nightclub in Notting Hill. He told me brilliant stories of food and life and generally put me on the right track.
