Lois McMaster Quotes
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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We cannot afford to spend millions and millions over nuclear arms when there is poverty and unemployment all around us.
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As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.
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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
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It had occurred to Rimford, at about the time he approached fifty, that the chief drawback in contemplating the enormous gulfs of time and space that constitute the bricks and mortar of the cosmologist is that one acquires a dismaying perception of the handful of years allotted a human being.
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I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.
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I'd find Moyo's views cruel and mistaken even she did not get the scholarships that have been reported.
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If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.
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China might seem quite successful in its controls, but it has only raised the water level. It’s like building a dam: it thinks there is more water so it will build higher. But every drop of water is still in there. It doesn’t understand how to let the pressure out. It builds up a way to maintain control and push the problem to the next generation.
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Today it is generally accepted that although the earliest humans probably ate some meat, it was unlikely to have played a major role in their diet. Plants would have been a much more important source of food.
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The best way to make money is to have more economic freedom, which is why we are one of the very few large companies that are consistently for it.
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If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.
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I learn lessons with every interview I give.
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As you get larger, it is harder to have focused discussions. Because one of the things I've learned about Congress over the past four years that I've been in is there's no shortage of opinions about how things should be done on any particular subject.
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That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.
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We like films that make you laugh, make you cry, make you think, scare you, whatever.
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It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
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I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell. If it doesn't turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it.
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We clicked from day one, and I think it's carried over into the season. We're always unselfish ? we make the extra pass and try to win.
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I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.
