Maria Semple Quotes
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It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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I want to make smart choices.
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I do not need any cheerleaders at my moot court. And I cannot imagine walking into that Court without the preparation of a few vicious moot courts; it is critical to the development of my thinking.
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The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
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For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.
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Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk about equality for somebody else. Let's pass it on. Let's pass it on to somebody else. At the end of the day, it is all about inequality.
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I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.
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For me, my country comes first. Nothing else matters but my country. I always felt that the best way to express your patriotism is to spread love, and that's all I ever tried to do through my work and my cinema.
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I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.
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You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
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Some of the most morally conscious, kindest, most compassionate people are in the entertainment industry, people who want to affect the world and make it a better place through telling human, heartfelt stories.
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We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
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I am not famous at all.
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Everyone knows that the Zionist regime is a tool in the hands of the United States and British governments.
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From a magician's midnight sleevethe radio-singersdistribute all their love-songsover the dew-wet lawns.
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What's changed in New York, and what made us really change our thinking about New York, is that the different neighborhoods are becoming more important as shopping destinations than they used to be.
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You can watch any Hitchcock film and be blown away.
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One of the blessings of the temple is the perspective that it provides. When we go to the house of the Lord, we leave all of our cares and problems at the door. And when we come back out, they’re still there. We have to pick them back up and they haven’t changed, but what has changed is us.
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One of the wonderful things about wrestling, to me, is that you can protect people who have had head injuries.
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Through the Internet, I've developed a strong social network - something I could never do if I had to keep my choice of peers within school grounds.
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I played football ever since I was a little boy. Coming from a family of six boys, I guess we learned the game of football from a very young age.
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If you're an artist and you're on Twitter, you are doomed to mediocrity.
