Lois McMaster Quotes
It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.
Quotes to Explore
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When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.
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I live in a rural residential area. It's a great place for a walk. I'm at my happiest when I'm listening to my iPod while walking around where my feet take me.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'
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I developed my camera system, called the Medusa, jointly with a colleague down in Australia as a method of exploring the ocean unobtrusively. The critical thing was that we didn't use white light, which I believe has been scaring the animals away.
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In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
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One of the things that helps me tell a story through music is to create a character. I have to have a muse, whether it's Frida Kahlo, Martha Graham, Marlene Dietrich, or Pippi Longstocking.
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Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
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If I could make albums quicker, I'd be on a roll wouldn't I? Everything just seems to take so much time. I don't know why. Time... evaporates.
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I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.
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I am committed to ovarian cancer research on a national level and in my community in the Carolinas. It is important to me to know the women that are true fighters of this difficult disease.
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'To the Bone' is autobiographical. It's written and directed by a woman; it's starring all women, apart from me and Keanu, who are in lesser parts, and it's produced by women.
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I have a daughter and a family.
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And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.
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Solace is my favorite song. It was the last song we wrote for the record. It was right when we really started to mesh as far as music goes and we started really connecting with each other.
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In the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright - and you can also see it with Mies - they make new ground by raising the ground. Frank Lloyd Wright did it so beautifully with the Robie House. The roof becomes almost a new ground.
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You can sit in a room and create anything you want on a laptop. That's why the real con men are gone.
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Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.
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Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.
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Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government--a bold and dishonest saying, which is fit to come from no mouth but that of a tyrant or a slave. To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed.
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It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.
