Christopher Lasch Quotes
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
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My father was military, so I traveled a lot, so I had 13 to 15 first days in new schools. Bullies transcend culture, unfortunately, and I had to deal with them wherever I went. I knew how to defend myself. But I didn't know how to fight.
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A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.
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There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.
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The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
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The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
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Our entire society is rooted around the idea of more, and longer has become the measure of success.
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Successful people are usually more lively than those who are unsuccessful. The quickening of the spirit they feel comes out of their creativity, and success detaches them from the more rigid outlook on life - it puts them in the flow. So the shakers and movers, by their very nature, are moving faster, taking more risks, and investing more in the world than their less active counterparts.
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Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.
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I don't enjoy anything while I'm doing it. I enjoy having done things, though.
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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
