Marie Brennan Quotes

I'm the sort of person who, once I put dragons into the real world, feels obliged to think about how their presence would have changed history.

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• What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • People
  • World
  • Care

• I love doing girly stuff with my mum or with Sophia. I took Sophia and a couple of her friends to the Hello Kitty spa. They had chocolate facials and Hello Kitty mani-pedis. I put it on my Twitter and got lots of abuse for it, but I think it's just a nice girly thing.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Friends
  • Think
  • Nice

• The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • War
  • Free
  • Government

• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Evil

• I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • People
  • Why
  • Think

• I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Devil
  • Scandal
  • Boardwalk Empire

• Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Together
  • Song
  • Relationship

• The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Important
  • Children
  • Food

• If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Human
  • Turn

• I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Goal
  • Doing
  • Just

• If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Grow
  • Others
  • Invest

• Our focused customers are small business and young people. We did a great job in China. How can we help those young people in India, in Pakistan, in Africa. If they can use in the same ways.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Great
  • Business

• But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Home
  • Democracy
  • Mistake

• It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Parents
  • Day
  • Weird

• I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Time
  • Want
  • Start

• What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.

  

  Dale Dougherty
  • People
  • Imagine
  • Computers

• I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Children
  • Grandchildren

• As a relative outsider to IT, I am able to view technology and our solutions from a business perspective, first and foremost.

  

  Jamie S. Miller
  • Business
  • Technology
  • Perspective

• I have been able to have a family and to dedicate quality time to my two sets of twins and my husband, as well as to serve on the boards of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and Montefiore Medical Center.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Time
  • Family
  • Quality

• But what of faith? What of fidelity and loyalty? Complete trust? Faith is not granted by tangible proof. It comes from the heart and the soul. If a person needs proof of god's existence, then the very notion of spirituality is diminished into sensuality and we have reduced what is holy into what is logical.-Drizzt Do'urden

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • God
  • Heart
  • Soul

• Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Cooking
  • Breakfast

• I'm the sort of person who, once I put dragons into the real world, feels obliged to think about how their presence would have changed history.

  

  Marie Brennan
  • World
  • Real
  • History