Lois McMaster Quotes
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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
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I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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In addition to reining in spending, taxes, tolls and fees, let's rein in how much the state borrows.
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Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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I like movies where you feel like it was actually thought through.
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My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses.
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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
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The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
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Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.
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The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.
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At 14 and 15, I used to listen to Tito Puente, Dave Valentine and everything that was happening with American jazz. I love it.
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The pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever it is that is causing me pain.
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What if the book (of Genesis) is describing a dawning awareness of the world? The anthropologist Edmund Leach has argued that the 'bit' or binary digit is the basic unit of pre-logical communication. Genesis is a sprouting of 'bits', ie elementary binary distinctions.
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I had four combat tours, and I never saw death on a scale like I saw in Haiti. A quarter-million people lost their lives.
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The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
