Daniel Humm Quotes
At home, I warm milk, stir in two teaspoons of honey, and drink it in a teacup. It's so basic yet pure; I love it.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?
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I don't think I'm anti-Israeli.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Acting in film, you know, I hear all the time, people say 'You did so much better than I thought you would.' So there's an added element of surprise in film, different than in music.
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
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Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.
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If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
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I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.
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In my eyes Marlantes has become the pre-eminent literary voice on war of our generation. He is a natural storyteller and a deeply profound thinker who not only illuminates war for civilians, but also offers a kind of spiritual guidance to vets themselves. As this generation of warriors comes home, they will be enormously helped by what Marlantes has written. I’m sure he will literally save lives.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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I do probably 80 or 90 per cent of the cooking at home.
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Last, in restaurants you spend a lot of time dealing with people who are very unhappy. Soup has been spilled on their laps, they've waited 10 minutes to get their check so they can leave, and you learn how to listen, I think, in a much more proactive way than government does.
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At home, I warm milk, stir in two teaspoons of honey, and drink it in a teacup. It's so basic yet pure; I love it.
