Clara Shih Quotes
Technologies and specific vendors may come and go, but massive cultural transformations and new kinds of relationships? Those don't go away.
Quotes to Explore
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
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Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.
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The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.
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Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.
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I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
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To stop suffering, stop greediness. Greediness is a source of suffering.
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You don't go to the library and walk along and pick out a topic. You are riding the bus, or shopping at Safeway, and all of a sudden the idea comes to you.
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Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
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Technologies and specific vendors may come and go, but massive cultural transformations and new kinds of relationships? Those don't go away.
