Lydia Millet Quotes
I wanted to write about this tropical honeymoon in part because I had the most drastically terrible honeymoon.
Quotes to Explore
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.
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I love guys like Charlie Parker.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.
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I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.
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In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well.
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In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.
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People always thought I'd never get elected outside San Francisco; I was always more worried that I'd never get elected again inside San Francisco.
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Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
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In Benin, there's a thing that family members wear the same pattern of traditional African clothing.
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Reading serves as a good escape when you're in the middle of doing crazy things.
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You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right.
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I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.
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To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.
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My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.
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The fact of the matter is that whether it's in London or Egypt or Turkey or New York or Washington, we have to pay the price of guarding ourself, which is internal vigilance.
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If I was crazy, I'd throw the ball into the stands with the bases loaded. Now, that's crazy. If I was stupid, I'd throw the ball into center field with the bases loaded and a 3-2 count on the hitter. Now, that's stupid.
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His destiny had betrayed him, had made him a destroyer on a scale that humbled even Caine. Destiny, he understood with bitter certainty, could not be trusted.
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In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.
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Christ commands those who believe to be baptized. Pedobaptists adopt a system which tends to preclude the baptism of believers. They baptize the involuntary infant and deprive him of the privilege of ever professing his faith in the appointed way. If this system were universally adopted, it would banish believers' baptism out of the world.
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I wanted to write about this tropical honeymoon in part because I had the most drastically terrible honeymoon.
