Lionel Shriver Quotes

In the public mind, an investment banker is no longer conservative; he's a risk taker, a gambler in high stakes, not to mention a thief. These people are dangerous - deliciously so.

Lionel Shriver

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The fans were so psyched that someone was doing a movie about a Boston fan that they were giving their all.

Jimmy Fallon

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I want to be as feminine and classic as possible.

Jessie Ware

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The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.

Andrew Sullivan

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I loved 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.' It was such a big part of my childhood.

Megan Fox

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In my work as a historian and in my relationships as a friend, teacher, wife, and mother, I have come to think that the most useful way to understand the past and make it work for you is to look at the trade-offs and contradictions that, however deeply buried, can be uncovered in every memory, good or bad.

Stephanie Coontz

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I feel like being a door person was like college in a sense. I could watch comedy on a professional level seven nights a week without paying, and they would pay me a nominal amount of money to be there.

Mike Birbiglia

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So, Mr. President, what is wrong with the fair employment practice bill?

Dennis Chavez

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Most people remember me for a couple of tunes.

Colin Hay

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Inventing sources is not a crime in and of itself, although it certainly violates every code of journalistic ethics known to man. A criminal fraud case would require that the reporter's deceit had been malicious and resulted in financial gain.

Brendan I. Koerner

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My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.

Anne Rice

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You can go as far as you want to go.

Annie Ilonzeh

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I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.

Audre Lorde

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