Lois McMaster Quotes
Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
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One school invited me down, as two pupils had come out, and the headmaster didn't know what to do about it. I said, 'How many students here are gay?' and he said, 'Just these two.' Clearly not. 'How many gay members of staff have you got?' He had no idea. And this was a concerned man.
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in the tour van, breaking down on the side of the road, you know, having a laugh with the guys in the band, making mistakes with nobody watching.
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When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called 'Dead End.' The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.
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Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.
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Even if a company is taken private, at some stage people want to make it public.
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Whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower...
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Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.
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Rather than worship Confucius and Kuan Kung, one should worship Darwin and Ibsen.
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Death,I need my little addiction to you.need that tiny voice who,even as I rise from the sea,all woman, all there,says kill me, kill me.
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Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.
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I don't like it when you look too styled and wear one designer from head to toe.
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I like Rick Ross as a person. I like Jay-Z and Kanye West as people. But I hate the companies that they record for.
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I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.
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I guess that I've always wanted to be a Bond villain.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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My eyesight is not good. You guys will see, in games you'll watch, I will have times where I don't see the catcher very well, especially in low-light conditions. I can get to about 20/40. That's about as good as they can get me with the stigmatisms and stuff I have going on.
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God's presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel.
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I'm not interested in parts where they are looking for a good-looking guy. I want to be a weird little sidekick in a crazy comedy and then play like a dark drama or a thriller.
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Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.
