Ann Maxwell Quotes
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
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The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
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I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.
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Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
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We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
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I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!
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Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
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My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine.
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The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
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Since I'm a vegetarian, I try to focus on getting my protein and iron needs met.
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Tolerance is another word for indifference.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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You have to think a little smarter, be proactive, not reactive.
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I want the seals of power and place, The ensigns of command, Charged by the people's unbought grace, To rule my native land. Nor crown, nor scepter would I ask But from my country's will, By day, by night, to ply the task Her cup of bliss to fill.
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I got to tell you, guys that have sex with each other's anal cavities - how can we offend guys that actually have anal sex? Don't you think that might offend some of us who think that's despicable?
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I am far more pragmatic than the stereotype of the sex permits.