Lois McMaster Quotes
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Don't trust anyone over 30.
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Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.
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The anti-individualist enemies that Ayn Rand battled are still the enemy, but they've shifted their line of attack. Political collectivists are no longer much interested in taking things away from the wealthy and creative.
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Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right.
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'Giving 2.0' was born of my desire to redefine and democratize philanthropy.
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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.
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People around me like me the best when I'm depressed because I'm a bit more passive.
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People who know me, they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.
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Proper love should be utterly supportive and comfortable, and it feels like a raincoat or a jacket potato.
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A sociable smile is nothing but teeth.
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Why? Surely they can find other men.
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Decades of record immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens, especially for African-American and Latino workers. We are going to have an immigration system that works, but one that works for the American people.
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There is nothing wrong with Facebook in itself, except that it is not a very good tool to express the quality of your relationships.
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We have the Nasdaq private market. But we also want to make sure that every investor has an opportunity to ultimately join in growth and the success of these great companies that we have that have been formed in the United States.
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I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.
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I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.
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When there's pressure, I believe people will break under it or a diamond will be created.
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You watch guys live through their peaks, and then unfortunately, you've got to come down from that peak.
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I'm definitely suspicious of girls. I've been suspicious of girls my whole life, though, so it's not anything new.
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It is not an act of bravery to try to save your own village. It is an instinct to protect what you possess. Bravery is when you step in to help when you have nothing to lose.
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You can draw a line between what I'm interested in and what I'm not interested in. On one side you can name Dylan and Lennon, who observe the world and have feelings, and write songs directly from those feelings. On the vapid side you have pop groups who need material and write songs to fill the hole, rather than getting somebody else.
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Americans make more trash than anyone else on the planet, throwing away about 7.1 pounds per person per day, 365 days a year. Across a lifetime that rate means, on average, we are each on track to generate 102 tons of trash. Each of our bodies may occupy only one cemetery plot when we’re done with this world, but a single person’s 102-ton trash legacy will require the equivalent of 1,100 graves. Much of that refuse will outlast any grave marker, pharaoh’s pyramid or modern skyscraper: One of the few relics of our civilization guaranteed to be recognizable twenty thousand years from now is the potato chip bag.
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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?
