Louise Rennison Quotes
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When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
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I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?
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I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't find my way back. The cops even had to come.
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Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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I'm not well versed on the verbiage of the internet.
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I played soccer when I was a kid. I started when I was 8 and played for 8 more years. I was pretty good. I used to train with Atletico Nacional, which is one of the most important teams in Colombia. I used to train every day.
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Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
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Imagine trying to learn without a dry place to sleep, eat, and do homework. Children cannot succeed in school if their lives out of school are in total chaos.
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I try to be really conscious. I don't want to ever look back and regret not raising my kids and not being around.
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The thing that's worked for me is having as much of a connection to the material as possible. And sometimes the material requires a more straightforward approach, and sometimes it requires a little more silliness, you know?
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The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.
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The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.
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We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.
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Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.
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I've never owned a pair of jeans, but I had a fantastic denim boiler-suit and it got a lot of wearing.
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Everything does go in a circle.
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It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust.
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It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity.
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To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well.
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Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge.
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For the uninitiated, “ectoplasm” is a ghostly kind of stuff that writers like Dennett are constantly accusing critics of materialism of believing in. It plays the same sort of straw-man role in his writings on the mind that Paley does in Dawkins’s writings on religion.
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I'm not a ice cream, i'm a human being
