Darin Strauss Quotes
Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.
Quotes to Explore
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.
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This town was built on nepotism.
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We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we go after that, but sometimes we tend to take all our loved and dear ones for granted.
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Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.
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I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
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I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
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We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
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I grew up in New York.
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I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.
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I very much looked up to Janet Evans and Summer Sanders.
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I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.
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Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.
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Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men.
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Our model citizen is a sophisticate who before puberty understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato.
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I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.
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I don't do facials or any of that stuff, but my workout regime does tend to depend on whether I have to take my top off in my next film because otherwise I know I'm too heavy.
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We're going to have to do a whole lot more, and give nature at least a chance to repair some of the damage we've done.
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Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.
