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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I'm always willing to listen to somebody else's ideas...because we can always learn more.
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You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.
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The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.
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I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.
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Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.
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I am far more pragmatic than the stereotype of the sex permits.
