Lisa Murkowski Quotes
I'm all about accessing our resources; I'm all about those jobs. But I want to make sure I'm not expensing one for the other.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.
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People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.
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There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.
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Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children.
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If I were to compare the Olympic decathlon to fatherhood, I would say fatherhood is a lot tougher.
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Colonialism subdues in many dulcet guises. It conquered under the pretext of spreading Christianity, civilization, law and order, to make the world safe for democracy.
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We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.
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I did not realise that I was so loved. It can't just be for the films. I must have done something else, but I can't remember what.
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The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched by it. In both cases, I've coped artistically by believing the criticisms weren't right. They upset me, but they didn't challenge my understanding of how to write, nor of how morality functions in literature.
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The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that.
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A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common - the desire to write - could almost be considered meaningless.
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I have done work that has appealed my heart, and 'Total Siyappa' is something I really liked.
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I consider myself more exportant than important.
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The ambition of the original Frank had not died; it had grown subtler. It had become a wish to sample everything. The more bodily habitations there were with which to sample, the more tantalizing the idea seemed: for many experiences, belonging only to one brief era, are never repeated, and may be gone before they are perceived and tasted.
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There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
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I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.
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The fact is that politics in Illinois is a blood sport. It's really rough. It's really nasty.
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Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.
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I'm all about accessing our resources; I'm all about those jobs. But I want to make sure I'm not expensing one for the other.
