Lisa Unger Quotes
Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something.

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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.
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That show, 'The Amazing Race' - is that about white people?
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I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.
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I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don't feel that I should have to share it with my community.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that I had a fascination with things coming out of people's mouths.
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There's a picture there that people realize that, we stop helping Israel, we lose God's hand, and we're in big time trouble.
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It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.
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I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
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The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
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In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
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Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.
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Cheney was among the best secretaries of defence the country has ever had. He was a very effective White House chief of staff. He did not make many enemies, and he had the ability to persuade people with that soft tone and very reasonable style of his. He's always been exceptionally good as the right-hand man.
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Some people won't like that we're not hard rock. We're not like Coldplay.
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The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.
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I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit it, you're able to hit it with a couple of short sharp shots... it's a beautiful thing.
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The thing about getting older is the injuries. You just get injured more often. You take time off, you come back, you get injured again and you never get in shape.
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Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something.