Armistead Maupin Quotes
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
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I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.
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The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.
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If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.
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I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.
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We've carried that over into the visual development as well. We've designed quite an exotic cast of characters, but the last thing we want is to dictate to the players how their PCs should look. What we want to do is inspire.
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There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depends on the cell class and function.
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Being in love is the best thing in my life.
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I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.
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I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.'
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You've got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that's difficult for me, because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can't hand over. But I'm trying to do that more.
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But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.
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No woman or girl is going to want to spend time looking at pretty dresses on the Internet. Vogue is going to be around for a long time to come.
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I've tried to get them to understand that on the road you have to take the game. You have to win it. It's not going to be handed to you no matter what the situation is, and teams are not going to fold at home. You must take the game.
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Apart from the organized Church, the religious spirit is a factor of incalculable power in the making of history. In the idealistic spirits that lead and in the masses that follow, the religious spirit always intensifies thought, enlarges hope, unfetters daring, evokes the willingness to sacrifice, and gives coherence in the fight.
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The imagination is the most real world that we know because we each know it first hand.
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When we look back on this time and we are going to see what the Internet brought us, and social media brought us, I think people are going to say 'how did people know anything in those years, during that particular time in history?' Because there is so much disorganization in the information.
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I've always worked to find really deep meaning of song and also at the same time having it covered in sugar, so it can be taken two or three different ways.
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I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.
