Dara Horn Quotes
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
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I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
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I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.
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It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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You have a gift that can make you rich. Everyone does.
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I went straight from the Marine Corps to the MFA. The way that you would express things among Marines is somewhat different than the way you're supposed to express things in a creative-writing workshop.
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I like green or brown eyes. Tall but not overwhelmingly so. I like men who do yoga and meditate.
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We Americans are idealists. We are willing to follow the truth solely because it is the truth. We put our main emphasis on the things which are spiritual. While we possess an unsurpassed skill in marshaling and using the material resources of the world, still the nation has not sought for wealth and power as an end but as a means to a higher life.
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I think all parents have a double life.
