Christopher Lasch Quotes
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I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.
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We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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It's true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It's the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets.
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I don't know, I like the word sassy.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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The best advice I get is actually from my family and friends. That has been a huge resource I've come to rely on.
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Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.
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I'd never hurt another person.
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Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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It's very hard for me to find any sort of shame or blame in my life. I'm not made that way.
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Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.
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When I talk to youngsters today, especially those involved in athletics, I tell them to get their education first.
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The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.
