Louise Erdrich Quotes
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.
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One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television.
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Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
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Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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You've got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you should totally do them. I mean, make huge mistakes. This is the time in your life if you screw up, it's okay because you can bounce back from it.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.
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I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
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A lot of writers dwell on their relationships with their mothers, but only a few are worth reading.
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To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.
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It's how the '70s were for movies, the 2000s are for TV. I think it's a phenomenal time for TV and to be involved in it.
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The industrial world would be a more peaceful place if workers were called in as collaborators in the process of establishing standards and defining shop practices, matters which surely affect their interests and well-being fully as much as they affect those of employers and consumers.
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It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.
