Louise Erdrich Quotes
Being a girl didn't really affect me until I entered junior high and had to wear skirts, curl my hair, and even get used to panty hose. However, my hatred of panty hose helped make me a writer who only wears comfortable clothes. I've successfully avoided panty hose for most of my life.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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Being born Roman and Romanisti is a privilege.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing - viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that if more videos games were created by women, the violence in these games - especially against women - would be rapidly toned down.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.
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Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.
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I am the worst at doing my hair. I have no clue how to do it; I just feel like I need to go to hair beauty school or something because it's really becoming a problem.
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I'm not really a self-promoter-type person.
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I mistrust illuminations: what we take for a discovery is very often only a familiar thought that we have not recognized.
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There's nothing like listening to the drone of QVC's always-bubbly pitchwomen, as they try to move loose-fitting tunics with 'just the right amount of sparkle,' to soothe you into a healing slumber.
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Being a girl didn't really affect me until I entered junior high and had to wear skirts, curl my hair, and even get used to panty hose. However, my hatred of panty hose helped make me a writer who only wears comfortable clothes. I've successfully avoided panty hose for most of my life.
