Maria Semple Quotes
I don't mind finding these ugly sides to my personality and exaggerating them because that's something you can write towards.
Maria Semple
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
Viktor Orban
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
Indira Gandhi
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Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
Banks
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
Victor Hugo
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
Ted Deutch
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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
Samuel Butler
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
W. H. Davies
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I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.
Thom Yorke
Radiohead
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I've owned a lot of dogs in my life - Marcela, Rusty, Petey Pup, Precious, Rosy and Ava. Each were in love with life's simple pleasures, but being people in dog suits, as they seem to be, they each had a defined personality!
Bob Peterson
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Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.
Plato
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A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I don't mind finding these ugly sides to my personality and exaggerating them because that's something you can write towards.
Maria Semple