Lois McMaster Quotes
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.
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You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.
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I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.
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There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.
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I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
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I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I would like modern readers to have an appreciation of this.
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Bahrain is very dear to me.
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What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
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Solar power is going to be absolutely essential to meeting growing energy demands while staving off climate change.
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We are not going to be the agency where large businesses can masquerade as a small business and get a contract. We are closing down on fraud, waste and abuse.
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There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.
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People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are.
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If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.
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The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
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For me it is always the colour, first and foremost.
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The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.
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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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I think that the Democratic Party is a big tent, which means that there are positions I may not agree with.
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There have been times I've finished a big job and thought, 'Great, a couple of weeks off.' But then a couple of weeks turns to three weeks and then after a month you're staring at the phone willing it to ring.
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The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.
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You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable.
