Marie Louise Quotes
I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
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I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
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Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.
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I just can't remember a time when I wasn't involved with animals and wildlife.
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Change is not something that we should fear. Rather, it is something that we should welcome. For without change, nothing in this world would ever grow or blossom, and no one in this world would ever move forward to become the person they're meant to be.
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As a writer, I find it very satisfying when a lyric suddenly ties together more neatly than you expected it to. But for the listener, hearing a good lyric is not generally as exciting as hearing a great beat or a great riff or a great melody or even a distinctive singing voice for the first time.
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Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.
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Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone.
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I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.
