Lois Lowry Quotes
I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like '1984' and 'Brave New World.'
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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Being evil is easy.
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I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I love anything to do with history.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must make sure the project's impacts, environmental and otherwise, are considered. In many cases, NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project's impact on their community.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
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My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.
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In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts, which He also gave us.
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The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.
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I want to know how God created this world. I'm not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details.
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In college - while figuring the things out that most people do in college - I had no game. No confidence. I had Birkenstocks. And overalls. A budding romance novel addiction. But no cool. No poise. I was trying on a thousand different personalities, but a lot of them were formed by the perceptions of others.
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I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like '1984' and 'Brave New World.'
