Lois McMaster Quotes
When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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I have, like, 45 celeb crushes at all times - celeb and Instagram crushes. I'm such a creep.
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My life has changed in many ways, both on an economic and personal level. All major league players are accorded the respect they deserve. In Cuba, it was not that way. National team players were not respected. The treatment was not adequate.
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I keep trying to convince people that I'm OK to wrestle, and I think that's probably the hard part. A lot of times I'm trying to convince myself, too, that I can wrestle. It's really hard, because the concussion issue is very subjective, and that's the part that a lot of people don't understand.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.
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Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.
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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
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I love apple juice.
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I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.
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I wasn't really using Twitter before 'Pan Am.' It was a good way to promote the show and be with the viewers on Sunday and be available to them and take questions.
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Colour-blindness always extends to the complementary colours. Those who are red blind are also green blind; those who are blind to blue have no consciousness of yellow. This law holds good for all mental phenomena; it is a fundamental condition of consciousness.
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And me I'm in the bathroomcrying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a manwhen you're scared, just like a little kid.
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Outside is pure energy and colorless substance. All of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.
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When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. … there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.
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I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.
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Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.
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There's a serious and worrying return to the fall of democracy in Spain, and it's not just us who are realising that.
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I have an old brain but a terrific memory.
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When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
