M. F. K. Fisher Quotes
Having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat.
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I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.
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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.
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I guess I crave stability.
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We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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I love zoo sanctuaries.
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I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.
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My first in, my first break, was I met a director and got to talking with her, and she happened to be casting this movie that she had written. That was ten years ago. That got me to Hollywood. I got paid $700 bucks.
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Let me say it again. I don't believe in black majority rule ever in Rhodesia-not in a thousand years. I repeat that I believe in blacks and whites working together. If one day it is white and the next day it is black, I believe we have failed and it will be a disaster for Rhodesia.
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A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.
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Tundra is a huge, forever frozen wetland covering the entire coast of the Arctic Ocean.
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Having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat.
