Naomi Alderman Quotes

It's absolutely delightful to get dressed up for a lovely evening, but when it goes from being a fun thing to being a chore, and a chore that men don't have to do, then we need to think about it differently.

Naomi Alderman

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God is still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate, to me, is outrageous.

Jim Inhofe

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I believe that Jesus Christ existed and that He died for my sins. And I believe that what He said in the Gospels is a model for the way I should try to lead my life and that I will always fall short of that and, therefore, need Him to redeem me.

John Dickerson

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I feel like artists, as much as we'd like to think we're communal, are pretty much loners.

Andrew Sean Greer

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It's wrong to look at what we call 'Enlightenment values' as some fad of the 18th century. It's deeply rooted in ancient history.

Matthew Stewart

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If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam.

Tom Seaver

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There are many roads to prosperity, but one must be taken. Inaction leads nowhere.

Robert Zoellick

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The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.

Roy Acuff

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Speaking as somebody who is half English and half Hungarian, World War I still seems to me a familiar and seismic event, as if it had only just ended.

Michael Korda

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It's very clear that TPP was promoted by corporate interests, it was driven by ideology, not by economic science. And when they started looking at the net trade benefits, they are miniscule.

Joseph Stiglitz

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Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

Denis Diderot

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My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.

Dorothy Hamill

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I would sometimes sit in a crowded restaurant, and say, 'You know, I'm the only person in this restaurant who can't draw.'

Scott Adams

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