Marilynne Robinson Quotes
I really enjoyed my kids. They were good boys, you know, and interesting. And they didn't wear me out.
Marilynne Robinson
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
Finn Wittrock
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
Maajid Nawaz
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I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.
Daniel Ek
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
K. Flay
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
Zadie Smith
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You look at a Pete Rose to be the terrific athlete he is and then he falls on hard times, but when he played the game, I got something from the way he played the game because he hustled every play, and just because he had one mistake in his life, am I supposed to throw back everything that I gained from him?
Walter Payton
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What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.
Laetitia Casta
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I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.
Victoria Jackson
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
Zola Budd
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
Najib Mikati
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Ben Henderson, he had never been knocked out before fighting me.
Rafael dos Anjos
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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
Viggo Mortensen
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Basically, most good science in space flight has to do with the behavior of the human body in space. That is where we are lacking info, and where info can only be obtained by flying in space.
Charles Simonyi
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If you think about what everyone else will think, you forget to just make music.
Chris Stapleton
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If my mom came here today, she'd probably join this red-hat brigade. My mother got my sense of humor, even when I was a kid. I would just do things that tickled my fancy in the moment, and she would ask me who I was entertaining. I'd say, 'Well, me.' And she would tell me that nobody knew that and they thought I was psychotic. Well, I don't ever want people to think I'm psychotic, but I can't help myself from doing these things.
Howie Mandel
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I faced many ups and downs, like any other actor: not getting through auditions or even worse - getting shortlisted and not being selected. Most actors go through the process.
Fatima Sana Shaikh
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There's no writer's block; there's only distraction.
Carolyn Chute
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I really enjoyed my kids. They were good boys, you know, and interesting. And they didn't wear me out.
Marilynne Robinson
