Maura Tierney Quotes

#1. I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.

Walter Kohn

#2. In a man, I like funny guys. A guy who doesn't have a lot of therapy, who's mature. A man, not a boy.

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#3. I'm glad we're not alone, but don't like that there are a lot of people. It's kind of problematic.

Jessica Sorensen

#4. Conversion is not merely a ticket out of hell. It is the beginning of a whole new life, not just an end to the old one.

Aimee Byrd

#5. You can't just take care of everybody else all the time.

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#6. I tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus.

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#7. Be kind to the hawk and harm the sparrow.

Idries Shah

#8. Human nature is violent, argumentative, fallible, and given to endless fantasizing.

Donald A. Wollheim

#9. I have so many insecurities they fight for prominence.

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#10. I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be or what they think you should feel.

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#11. I wish I had a little more joy of cooking - because mostly I have anxiety of cooking. I'm so proud when things come out well.

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#12. When I was going through my cancer treatment, I learned that you can never ask a stupid question. I asked every single question that came to my mind, and I believe that helped to calm my own anxiety.

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#13. I remember just how afraid I was. I was just as much afraid of the treatment as the diagnosis. So I thought I could talk about it in an authentic way.

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#14. Our intuitions about randomness are biased towards thinking it is a good deal more ordered than it really is.

Anonymous

#15. 'Star Wars' novels that focus on a single character are few and far between.

James Luceno

#16. Suddenly I don't feel so bad at being rescued by a rabbit,

Patricia Briggs

#17. My Catholic faith is my life. Any artist, if he is to be faithful to how he perceives the world and to the nature of his creative gifts, cannot divorce the two. To create is to love. To love is to create.

Michael O'Brien

#18. I love Martin Amis.

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#19. And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.

Skitch Henderson

#20. I don't have much patience with sick people.

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#21. A conservative vision to tech issues assumes the imperfection of mankind and a preference for markets - not politics - to drive outcomes.

Marsha Blackburn

#22. It's a life-changing thing to be in a position of needing help and being so lucky as to get it.

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#23. My knees have always been ugly.

Germaine Greer

#24. I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.

Bear Bryant

#25. I'm not really the nurturer type.

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#26. Unfortunately in life, justice is not always achieved.

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#27. Everyone in my family has seen me cry before.

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#28. My answer to a lot of things is to go to work. That's not everybody's answer.

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#29. We love most those who we serve most.

Bryant H. McGill

#30. There is something about the photographs that is endlessly disturbing. The fact that we like to think of them as torture actually hides what is really deeply offensive about them.

Errol Morris

#31. Being bald is no fun.

Maura Tierney