Andrew Solomon Quotes
Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances; brilliance is almost always profoundly isolating.Andrew Solomon
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
Karl Kraus -
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
Odilon Redon -
It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.
Lady Gregory -
In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
Park Chan-wook -
Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
D. L. Hughley -
I like to be supportive and a role model.
Rachel Platten
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
Pat Robertson -
As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
Ted Cruz -
I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.
Carl Hagelin -
America preaches integration and practices segregation.
Malcolm X -
There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
G. Willow Wilson -
I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
Aaron Paul
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
Barbara Kruger -
With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
Candice Millard -
I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
Rachelle Lefevre -
GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
Jack Dangermond -
One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
Gabrielle Roy -
I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'
Patrick Duffy
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It's hard to walk down the street without 'Entourage' comments, and that's all nice.
Kevin Dillon -
Happiness is the only thing worth fighting for in your life.
Lilly Singh -
There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.
Daniel Everett -
People usually want to show me their impression of me, which is always awkward.
Anjelah Johnson -
How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
Karen Gillan -
Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances; brilliance is almost always profoundly isolating.
Andrew Solomon