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Lionel Shriver Quotes

As individuals are best off believing they control their behaviour, the judiciary is best off imputing that control - barring powerful extenuating factors such as mental illness.

Lionel Shriver

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 18, 1957

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Best Control Powerful Believing Off

Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.

Joe Chung

Democracy Authoritarian Would Who

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.

Jim Bakker

Son Walls Me World Prison Want

To lose a child is - I can't imagine anything worse than that.

John F. Kelly

Child Lose Anything Imagine Worse

When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to.

Tom Cruise

Best People Relax Attention You Now

I have no burning ambitions, and I can honestly say the thing I love most is 'Bake Off.' That will always come first.

Mary Berry

Love I Can Say Will First Always

I love my mother a not-normal amount.

Mary H.K. Choi

Love Mother I Love Amount

If you get a colonoscopy, you should really insist they give you no drugs - then you do get to see what it's like to swim through your own intestines.

Mary Roach

You See Through Own Swim Get

I personally don't think that blood ties should be something that signifies so much more than anything else. I understand perfectly when somebody leaves their family for good.

Luca Guadagnino

Family Good Think Blood Understand

I'm into the law of attraction and quantum physics. Like cosmic ordering. It's all about thinking lovely things that you would like in life, and feeling good about them before they manifest, so that by the time they do, you don't want them because you're on to your next desire.

Julia Sawalha

Life Good Time Law Thinking Physics

Before they deploy, they train for the specific operations, but there is a danger that the Army is not retaining the core of its full capabilities.

Des Browne

Army Train Operations Danger Core

When I did 'Opportunity Knocks' at 14, it was singing in other people's voices. So I'm more comfortable doing that.

Debra Stephenson

Opportunity People Singing Doing Did

The fact is I do feel very Spanish, like when I'm talking to my wife and daughter in Spanish at two in the afternoon. I even think in Spanish when I get angry!

Antoine Griezmann

Daughter Wife Angry Think Talking