Maria Semple Quotes
I attended TED in 2007 and 2008, the last two years the conference was held in Monterey.
Quotes to Explore
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I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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I have been fighting climate change for two decades, and people often ask me how I remain hopeful in the face of extreme weather and grim forecasts. The answer is simple: I see countless solutions spreading across the nation and across the world. But we need more investment.
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I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.
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I try to invest smart. I'm not a baller. I'm not a blinger.
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It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.
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Travel teaches as much as books.
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All of my characters are less than perfect.
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I started kite boarding when I was 13. My dad was a kite boarder, and I begged him to teach me until he finally agreed. He made me wait because it can be dangerous.
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Sometimes there are customers who get in difficulty because of situations that are out of their control. These are customers with genuine needs, and the role of the bank is to accommodate these customers, and there is a real need to reschedule the loans of these customers.
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I work with Sally and I can see Sally doing that. She is very aggressive. Very fun loving and charming... and pushy in a very competitive way and a very healthy way and a very good actress.
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Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if they cannot find it, they attempt to create it.
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
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Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.
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The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.
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I'm not cured, but the HIV is asleep deep in my body.
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What I found in the Protestant faith was that your salvation is secure, and that the rest is process.
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It's hard for me to understand how poverty can be invisible to so many people, since I see it everywhere. Readers sometimes think this world is so different; on the one hand, they feel connected to the people I'm writing about, and on the other hand, they're saying their lives are a world away.
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Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.
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As a child, I did watch some Hindi movies at home with Dad, but I didn't know who anyone was. I wasn't interested, honestly.
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Nil posse creari de nihilo.
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If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.
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I attended TED in 2007 and 2008, the last two years the conference was held in Monterey.
