Christopher Lasch Quotes
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I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.
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We, Will Ferrell and I, were approached by Sequoia, which is a big financing firm up in Palo Alto; they do a lot of Internet stuff, and they came to us and said they had an idea for a comedy site, and Will and I were sorta like, 'Yeah, we don't know. It's the Internet, we've seen it come and go.'
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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My dad was in a hospital for months. The doctors told my dad he would never be able to walk again. My dad beat all the odds. He came back and was able to walk and start boxing again. He went to No. 1 in the world at welterweight to fight for the world title. But he never had his chance to fight for a world title.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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'Orange Is the New Black' and 'Sense8' have enjoyed great success all over the world.
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Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.
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I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.
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There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.
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Well, honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.
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The reason why I love to win is because I don't have to go through that feeling of losing. It's those times where I lose that feeling that will stick with me.
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A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.
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I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.
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I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.
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Part of my therapy is to write.
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I think I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something that people find mildly surprising. ...I find a lot of feminist reading quite confusing and that often there's a set of rules, and people will be like, 'Oh, this person isn't a true feminist because they don't embody this one thing,' and I don't know, often there is a lot of gray area that can be hard to navigate.
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Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.
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The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors.
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I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.
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We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.