Margaret Heffernan Quotes
The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.
Quotes to Explore
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I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.
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As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility.
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Jesus was a teacher, in a way. I mean, essentially, Jesus was a teacher. He was teaching people. He was helping them see themselves for what they were. He was helping them see their power, their strength, their beauty, what they're capable of.
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The same would be true for something like Social Security, where historically, if you just read the law and the fact that it excluded domestic workers or agricultural workers, you might not see race in it, unless you knew that that covered a huge chunk of African Americans, particularly in the South.
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The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.
