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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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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Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.
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It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun.
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The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.
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I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.
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I look for good people and people that will be like-minded and help me try to do good for other human beings.
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Not too many people in cocktail parties are aware of Bioprinting and growing organs, or the coming technological singularity; I've seen very little philosophical speculation about how far we can go, how much we could achieve.
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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.
