Lucy Alibar Quotes

Oh, I love to read more than anything. I always love the 'New Stories From the South' anthologies - I think it's the best short fiction collection anywhere, just filled with treasures.

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• They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Saying
  • Computers
  • Nonsense

• In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or religion.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Up
  • House
  • Opinion

• The bodies we have are not made for extended use. We must cope with accumulated DNA damage, cell damage, muscle atrophy, bone loss, decreased muscle mass, and joints worn out from overuse during a lifetime of bipedal locomotion. It might have worked great for prehistoric humans, but it wreaks havoc on our knees and hips.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Great
  • Loss
  • DNA

• The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus much more limited federal power under the discarded Articles of Confederation.

  

  Barbara Ann Radnofsky
  • Great
  • Power
  • Supreme Court

• In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • World
  • Real
  • Book

• Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It's a reminder there's a lot broken.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Up
  • Broken
  • U.S.

• Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Action
  • Day
  • Fall

• I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Character
  • Want

• So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Career
  • Want
  • Comedy

• Physically, I've seen a change in my life. No, I haven't had a face lift or anything like that. I've grown. That's God's countenance.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • God
  • Change

• Every day there are homeowners in California who will either receive relief so they can stay in their home, or will be in the foreclosure process and potentially lose their home. And that always weighed heavily on my mind.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Day

• I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Time
  • Music
  • Working

• Lawsuits prod companies to make their products safer.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Products
  • Lawsuits
  • Prod

• I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Up
  • Want
  • Singing

• I've kept to myself, I've put my head down. I've gone to work. And I have felt undervalued.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Down

• I call for greater measures to involve more women at higher levels in mine action. Governments should do more to address gender in their mine action programmes and through their implementation of the Anti-personnel Mine Ban Convention.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • Action
  • Gender

• To be successful, you have to be willing to be successful. You have to believe in the law of attraction - that you create your own life.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Law

• No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Slavery
  • Corruption
  • Pen

• We will keep pounding ISIL and taking out their leaders, and pushing them back on the ground. And united with a global coalition, we will destroy this barbaric terrorist group. They will be destroyed.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Destroy
  • Leaders
  • Ground

• I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities.

  

  Lewis Mumford

• People recognize me all the time. I think it's really nice. I don't mind it at all. It feels kind of surreal when people know who you are and I think that it's really cool.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• It gives you a good feeling. Each year, you rediscover in a garden the magic of life. A flower arrives, and it is a miracle. The leaves fall in the autumn, and it looks fantastic. There is a tenderness about a garden, and you can't help but be sensitive to that.

  

  Hubert de Givenchy
  • Life
  • Good
  • Help

• It would be naive to take the IRA at its word,

  

  Ian Paisley
  • Word
  • Naive
  • IRA

• Oh, I love to read more than anything. I always love the 'New Stories From the South' anthologies - I think it's the best short fiction collection anywhere, just filled with treasures.

  

  Lucy Alibar