Kelly Sue DeConnick Quotes
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
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I do suspect that this world is hell.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally it is right. But is it the right thing to do? No.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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I really think I'd have enjoyed the life of a Regency buck.
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Events are not a matter of chance.
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The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
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Most of the sicknesses we suffer from are from the things we eat.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another.
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A lot of things we're supposed to do are hard to do, but we can do them. They're always beneficial. Really, some things that are hard are beneficial.
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The only thing that may make me different from other people is I have passionate interests outside of work.
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Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.
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Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value.
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I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them they matter a great deal to God, who sacrificed His only Son to reach them with His love.
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The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.
