Annie Proulx Quotes
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.
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The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
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Every sport has its own cast of characters.
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A lot of cats are not that social.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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I think it's very important to distinguish between objectivity - which tends to be open, flexible, skeptical of its own certainty and open to new information - and objectivism - which thinks, "No, we know it all, we've got it, so real thinking and learning can come to an end."
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I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.
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My style has changed and evolved mainly because I've grown to have more confidence in myself.
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Samsara - our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana - genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but different manifestations of a basic continuum. So this continuity of consciousness us always present. This is the meaning of tantra.
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Variety is the spice of life. We all want surprises.
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Quoyle, who spoke little himself, inspired talkers. His only skill in the game of life
