Lois McMaster Quotes
And this was your friend?" Cordelia raised her eyebrows. "Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you.
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Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.
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I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.
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I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
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Before a shoot, I'll watch what I eat. During the shoot, I watch what I eat. Afterwards, the first thing I do is go have a steak and French fries.
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Regency romances end in marriage; zombie stories end in the zombies being vanquished. 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' delivers both.
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.
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I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.
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It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.
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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.
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I have this big kid in me. I indulge him; I let him out to horse around. I think I'm being a great old man.
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I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.
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I think... all of the best public cryptographers in the world would agree that you can't really build back doors in crypto. That it's like drilling a hole in the windshield.
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I sort of consider myself a Nigerian who spends a lot of time in the U.S.
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You can't be entirely unguarded in politics. Even appearing to be unguarded is as much a facade as a reality.
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Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where youre both championing a character and youre revolted by them.
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What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest permanent interest, whether it be a copy of verses or a geometrical theorem, is to have done something utterly beyond the powers of the vast majority of men.
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And this was your friend?" Cordelia raised her eyebrows. "Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you.
