Dante Alighieri Quotes
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
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In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
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The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
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In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die a little. This sounds like a subtle, poetic notion. It's not. In American legal and cultural tradition, one essential privilege of citizenship is not having to prove it on demand.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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Personal life? I'd like to keep it private.
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I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.
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I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.
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Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.
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Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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For members of the Democratic Party, and progressives all over the world, it is difficult to overstate or hyperbolize the despair and dread that has descended upon them in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump.
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I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.
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Everywhere is here and every when is now.
