Lois Lowry Quotes
As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium.
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In San Francisco, I found Warren Levinson, who had set up a program to study Rous Sarcoma Virus, an archetype for what we now call retroviruses. At the time, the replication of retroviruses was one of the great puzzles of animal virology. Levinson, Levintow and I joined forces in the hope of solving that puzzle.
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For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world.
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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.
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The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.
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I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
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I hate television, but that's me. It's like sucking your thumb. It's a wonderful thing for keeping the masses enslaved.
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I like throwing snowballs at small children.
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I kept my head; I mean, I've never been one of those people who ended up in the gutter with sick in my hair.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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'30 Rock' is probably one of my favorite shows. It's just joke after joke after joke.
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If you know anything about Ethiopia, they are very security conscious, a very closed environment. It's a repressive place were journalists and bloggers are arrested all the time.
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When I hear an interview that I've done, and I've said 'like' a bunch of times, it just cheapens the sentiment.
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You don't want to destroy the energy that comes out of a campaign.
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When it comes to Pakistan, the first word that comes to the mind of the Chinese is 'iron brother.' To us Chinese, Pakistan is always a trustworthy friend who is as solid as iron. Actually, Chinese netizens refer to Pakistan as 'Iron Pak.' This testifies to the strength of China-Pakistan friendship.
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Empirically, all pornography is made under conditions of inequality based on sex, overwhelmingly by poor, desperate, homeless, pimped women who were sexually abused as children.
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Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.
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The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.
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As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium.
