Lucan Quotes
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I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
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Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.
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I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to Hollywood and be an actor.' I didn't want to look back on my life and wonder, 'What if I had done this? Or I had done that?'
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Even back in elementary school, I was a leader, but a leader who didn't know how to channel my leadership skills in a constructive way. When I was younger, it probably came out as being more of a bossy little kid.
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The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.
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I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.
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Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.
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I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.
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If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.
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I wouldn't call myself anti-nuclear.
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The casino is the only human venture I know where the probabilities are known, Gaussian (i.e., bell-curve), and almost computable.
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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
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When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.
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I thought it was so cool that all you knew about Prince was about his artistry and music.
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Friends are thieves of time.
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Quidquid multis peccatur inultum est.
