Anthony Doerr Quotes
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Another occupation might have been better.
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I love doing girly stuff with my mum or with Sophia. I took Sophia and a couple of her friends to the Hello Kitty spa. They had chocolate facials and Hello Kitty mani-pedis. I put it on my Twitter and got lots of abuse for it, but I think it's just a nice girly thing.
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I don't think God cares a whole lot about the outcome. He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.
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I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody.
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We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.
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'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.
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I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.
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I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.
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President Obama has a good sense not just of the economic requisites for financial crisis firefighting but also how you build political support for moving forward on reforming the financial system, making sure that the banks are carrying enough capital.
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There's a greatness in this country many of the kids today don't know.
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There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.
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Our philosophy is that we want to be an ecosystem. Our philosophy is to empower others to sell, empower others to service, making sure the other people are more powerful than us. With our technology, our innovation, our partners - 10 million small business sellers - they can compete with Microsoft and IBM.
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I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one.
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'I’ve never seen a soft heart turn hard,' said Taleswapper. 'At least not without good reason.'
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In brief, part of the need for funding comes from the need to create balance to a third of a century of funding an 'attitude' toward men. And part comes from the need to study how both sexes can make a transition from those rigid roles to more flexible roads with a clear enough road map to not go over too many cliffs along the way...
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'Navigation on this lake is forbidden to aliens,' he declared. 'We are ordered to sink all intruding vessels. Prepare to drown.'
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Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.
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I want it to be that transgender is normal. Let us live our lives. Let us be happy. The world will be a better place when we have that freedom. I think I'm going to be alive to see it.
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I am immensely contrite. And I'm sorry for the damage I've done.
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Don't fix me; Love me for what's broken.
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I listen to podcasts while I run in Boise's foothills.
