Lois McMaster Quotes
For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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Obviously I've had great experiences with people I've worked with on films - I've married half of them! I should come with a warning sign that says, 'Don't worry, I'm not going to try to marry you. I'm done.'
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I am forever learning and changing.
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My life and my happiness is most important to me than any job or anything in the world.
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Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory.
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It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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When a juvenile offender commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity.
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Monopoly of one kind or another, indeed, seems to be the sole engine of the mercantile system.
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Life lives; and in the living flow, no questions are raised. The reason is that life is a living now! So, in order to live life whole-heartedly, the answer is life simply is.
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Everyone always says the middle child is the worst or whatever - what do they say? That everyone forgets about them? But that's not true. That's not true in my family.
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I was being categorized as some kind of twangy songwriter. And that's just not how I see myself.
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I'm a sucker for a good country song.
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I really like fashion, but I'm not a fashionista by any means.
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'Black Hawk Down' has such distinctive visual aplomb that its jingoism starts to feel like part of its atmosphere.
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If you take your fear and mash it into something that's actually useful, then it doesn't feel like it wins.
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When government grows, it breaks the family.
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Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.
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Everybody's still in the 70s and 80s musically, still making remakes.
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What do we mean by 'crazy?' What do we mean by 'mad?' At what point is a person just different and at what point can we call it a disease and say that they are not responsible for their actions? Or are we all slaves to the chemical processes that go on in our brains?
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It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
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The auspices for philosophy are bad if, when proceeding ostensibly on the investigation of truth, we start saying farewell to all uprightness, honesty and sincerity, and are intent only on passing ourselves off for what we are not. We then assume, like those three sophists - Fichte, Schelling and Hegel, first a false pathos, then an affected and lofty earnestness, then an air of infinite superiority, in order to impose where we despair of ever being able to convince.
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For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.
