Marilynne Robinson Quotes
I don't claim to know what it means to say that we are made in the image of God, but I profoundly and instinctively believe it and all that it implies.
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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I love working the legislative process.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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When you have girl children, they torture you! If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens. They say, 'Mom, you didn't really wear that?' And I say, 'Yes, and pretty much everyone saw it.'
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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There's always that stigma of, 'Women shouldn't box,' or stereotypes of what a female boxer should look like. I don't think the men really have to deal with that - to tell people they're a boxer.
Mandy Bujold -
I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
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I believe when you go out there, you have a responsibility to deliver. I have old-fashioned thinking when I'm out there.
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Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.
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I don't claim to know what it means to say that we are made in the image of God, but I profoundly and instinctively believe it and all that it implies.
