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Marianne Wiggins Quotes

I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.

Marianne Wiggins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: September 8, 1947

Topics

Car Road Rock Rat Hammer Narrative

Equipped with cell phones, beepers, and handheld computers, the 'conspicuously industrious' blur the line between home and office by working anytime, anywhere.

Home Computers Blur Office Phones

We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We think it's OK to invade a country where we think Osama Bin Laden is and he's in the other country. So we just go in and we just kill. And we have the death penalty; we sanction it.

Death People Believe Think Country

To be in the privileged position where I am able to give something back is, for me, perhaps the single most important measure of success.

Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber

Success I Am Me Measure Back Single

I really don't want to do anything that resembles stand-up comedy. But I will agree to say that I am doing it, and I will hope that people expect it to be that, so I can thwart those expectations.

Hope I Am People Expectations Comedy

Though President Obama promised during the 2008 campaign to pass the DREAM Act, he never made it a priority and failed to bring Republicans and Democrats together to do it in his first term.

Together Dream President Never First

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

Health Time Fitness People World

When I'm working with improv people, I give them the green light to just bring it and try things.

Light People Green Try Improv Bring

I can't predict the future of football. I don't think it'll go the way of boxing because it's a team sport. It's built into our education systems, the flagship for a lot of universities' fundraising campaigns. So no, I don't think it'll go away.

Education Future Football Team Think

I am a drinker with writing problems.

I Am Writing Problems Am Drinker

I grew up in a country that was in a civil conflict for most of my childhood and adolescence. I saw violence and lived as a teenager through the time of a brutal dictator called Idi Amin. I fled and became a refugee.

Winnie Byanyima

Time Childhood Conflict Violence Up

I think of myself as more additive than initially creative; I don't come up with the stories.

Myself Creative Think More Up Come

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

Great Men Literature Discovery Write

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