Ella Mai Quotes
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
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Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you are righteous, you will become a righteous Christian or Jew.
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Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?
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There's always merit to having a debate.
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Personal style? I don't really believe in that. Whatever is comfortable.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
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On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
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The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
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When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.
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It's quite difficult for a parent to know that their daughter is in great danger.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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One of the things that's really lousy about making movies is that you have such little interaction with your audience.
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I've learned a lot. I've seen a lot. I've grown a lot.
