Lois McMaster Quotes
Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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I just took everything so seriously in my early twenties. But now I'm like, 'life can be fun.' You don't have to overthink everything. I've found a way to be more at peace with things. I'm looking forward to turning 30.
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For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game.
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The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.
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I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values, our American system, our freedom, our liberties.
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We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime.
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I like to wear jewellery, even though I like my look to be minimalist. When I go out for events, I like to have at least one statement piece. It always adds glamour.
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From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals to understand that they might provide a relatively simple entry into a problem as complex as cancer.
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I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.
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Tarzan of the Apes knew that they had found the body of his victim, but that interested him far less than the fact that no one remained in the village to prevent his taking a supply of the arrows which lay below him.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Die Wahrheit kann warten: denn sie hat ein langes Leben vor sich.
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People think that if you get a lot of views, the ad truck just shows up at your front door. That's just not true.
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The key is not to figure out what the best people are doing and try to emulate it - rather, figure out what causes people and companies to be successful.
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The expropriation of land without compensation should be among the mechanisms available to government to give effect to land reform and redistribution.
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Most don't live inside their heads as a writer does, having conversations with her own ideas.
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It was a poorly refereed game. I know there's a lot of pressure on the refs when they come here because Mark (Cuban) has them review the tapes and send them into the league.
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When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.
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The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.
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The people have only a very vague direct power. They have the power of voting against the administration, again after its decisions have been taken; but they have no way of getting into the question of policy-making, decision-making, except insofar as the vague forces and pressures of public debate and public opinion have their impact on the President. The President still has to decide. He can't go to the people and ask them to decide for him; he has to make the decision. In that sense he was condemned to be a dictator.
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Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.
