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Thomas Mallon Quotes

I was raised - and still consider myself to be - Catholic, though I'm non-practicing and haven't fulfilled my Easter duty since sometime during the Nixon years. I'm assailed by all kinds of stimulating doubts, but I do believe in God.

Thomas Mallon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 2, 1951

Topics

God Myself Believe Duty Easter

I had my bad-boy moment in my teens. I'll never do that again. It wasn't pleasant, and I learned my lesson. It was sexy and mysterious, and it's like, 'Look how cool they are,' but it's just not worth it. He was lying to me and accusing me of cheating - but then I realized he was the one cheating.

Jessica Biel

Moment Me Cool Sexy Cheating Look

Rhythm and blues started even before phonograph records were being produced because black people entertained themselves. It wasn't done for money. It was done for entertainment. Most white people didn't know anything about this because prejudice kept them from ever seeing what was going on.

Jesse Stone

Money People Black Seeing White

In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of students was permitted to attend university before taking part in wartime research projects.

John Pople

Age Men War Research Young Group

I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

Speak Problems Think Bed Happened

As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal.

Steven Pinker

Learning Children Language Long Dots

It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.

Roddy Doyle

Time Job Sexy Place Con Big

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

Ludwig von Mises

War Philosophy Protectionism

I think my imagination about jobs was pretty limited. There were so few jobs that I actually saw people who looked like me in, that I imagined myself in, that I think I just stopped imagining.

DeRay Mckesson

Myself Imagination People Me Think

I'm not an especially highbrow person, but I have always loved small, quirky, edgy movies.

Diablo Cody

Small Loved Person Movies Edgy

I feel very strongly about contraception even though I know people say that, as a good Catholic girl, I shouldn't. But I disagree because I think one of the keys to women's progression in the 20th century is being able to control their fertility.

Cherie Blair

Good Women Girl People Control Feel

There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place.

Aries Spears

Great Start Comedy You Place Got

Throughout his life, Ronald Reagan believed America is capable of great things and its people could and would lead the way if left unburdened by taxation and regulation.

William L. Jenkins

Life Great People America Way Lead