Maria Semple Quotes
It's great to be able to just go with an idea and not have 10 people in a room telling me why I can't write in a huge mud slide at a school function with 50 kindergartners running around.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.
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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Making music is fantastic.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.
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Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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My best friend is my husband.
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Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.
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We have got to cut the spending. We have got to fix Medicare and Social Security. And actually, if we don't cut spending, this country is already broke. We are going off the financial cliff: the big cliff that is going to cause a total economic collapse of America.
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I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me.
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Understanding the intentions of a play is so key because you can block a guy into the running back if you don't know how the play is supposed to work or where the back is going to come out.
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Understand that nutrition plays a huge role in athletes' lives, and one of the most nutritious ways to eat is to cook your own food.
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I think so much of young adult literature sort of gets ghettoized - the title 'young adult' makes people immediately discount it. And just like with books that get written for adults, there is plenty of young adult literature that is bad. But there is also plenty of young adult literature that is brilliant.
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It's great to be able to just go with an idea and not have 10 people in a room telling me why I can't write in a huge mud slide at a school function with 50 kindergartners running around.
