Lois McMaster Quotes
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A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a politician can stop people from injuries. A politician can take a step so that no person is scared tomorrow.
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I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.
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Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.
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I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
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Music is very powerful and can make you feel whatever it is. If you listen to gospel, you're going to feel thankful, and you're going to want to call up people that you hate and tell them that you love them. When you listen to sexual music, it gets you in the mood.
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The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.
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I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.
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I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
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Religion and political cartoons, as you may have heard, make a difficult couple, ever since that day of 2005, when a bunch of cartoonists in Denmark drew cartoons that had repercussions all over the world - demonstrations, fatwa, they provoked violence. People died in the violence.
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Things don't really impress me. Memories impress me. It's not the toys, it's the people.
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For some reason, the word 'feminist' freaks people out, but when you look it up, all it means is equal opportunity.
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I want to plug back into the hip-hop audience. Whether it be fans who grew up watching 'Yo!', or people who have become familiar with the culture via the Internet.
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We don't find it tough to sell gold; people love to buy jewelry. The only way to make your wife, sister or lover happy is to give them something that they love.
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A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
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May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!
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What happened with reggaeton is that many artists kept recycling the same sound. But there are a lot of reggaeton artists that are still in their prime - like Daddy Yankee - because they've chosen to continue growing, to offer people more than just reggaeton. That's where I learned to always be able to try something new and not be afraid.
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People talk about body cleanses like there's no tomorrow - what about apartment cleanses?
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Castro branded Rigondeaux a 'traitor' and 'Judas' to the Cuban people.
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How irritating it must be for people, to be bombarded with me!
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I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness is antidote to confusion - that standing within this otherness - the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books - can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.
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What we're trying to do is set the bar a little bit higher. This has been a very contentious, very emotional (issue).
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You can't be hateful because you love yourself. And we're extensions of each other; we're all connected.
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I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.
