Elizabeth Flock Quotes
The American Humanist Association, whose slogan is 'Good without a God,' created the National Day of Reason with the Washington Area Secular Humanists to raise awareness about government threats to religious liberty and up the profile of the non-religious community.
Quotes to Explore
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
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I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.
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To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.
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'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
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Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.
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My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.
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I didn't make a 147 until few years ago - I just wasn't the sort of player who went for them. But it's like buses I suppose, one comes along and then a few more follow.
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Take it from me: I really love making things up, which is why I write fiction for a living.
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The American Humanist Association, whose slogan is 'Good without a God,' created the National Day of Reason with the Washington Area Secular Humanists to raise awareness about government threats to religious liberty and up the profile of the non-religious community.
