Ann Leckie Quotes
You don’t like me saying that, but here’s the truth: luxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many advantages of civilization is that one generally doesn’t have to see that, if one doesn’t wish. You’re free to enjoy its benefits without troubling your conscience.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
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We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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Everything is real on me.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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I try not to eat too many raw vegetables. I only have one raw meal a day. At night I eat warm, cooked foods. I like to drink lots of tea, but no coffee. Not drinking coffee has changed my game for the better.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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I got my first Charvet knit tie when I was 15. I actually stole it from my father. I love them because you can wear them day to night. They're French and preppy and have been around since the 1800s.
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Kiss will always be Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley to me.
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Feeling which has not yet emerged into immediate consciousness is already affectible and already affected. In fact, this is habit, by virtue of which an idea is brought up into the present consciousness by a bond that has already been established between it and another idea while it was still in futuro.
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The better you think , the better decisions you make . the better decisions you make , the better actions you take . the better actions you take , the better results you get
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When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that.
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You don’t like me saying that, but here’s the truth: luxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many advantages of civilization is that one generally doesn’t have to see that, if one doesn’t wish. You’re free to enjoy its benefits without troubling your conscience.
