Christopher Lasch Quotes
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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.
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Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.
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Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.
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My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.
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I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
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The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
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L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.
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To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.
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We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them.
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Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat - And there isn't any call for me to shout it: For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!
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I've got this great home life I want to keep living, and I don't want to neglect it.
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There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.
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The left has lost the common touch.
