Marquis de Condorcet Quotes
People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them.
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I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.
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A lot of times people feel a little apprehensive about suggesting to actually meet in person. One of the reasons that can be hard is people think they have to propose something super novel.
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Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
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Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times.
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The conflict between the creatures of Native Lore and the immigration of the European preternatural hosts is hinted at in 'Blood Bound' and reflects the conflicts between the human immigrants and the Indian people who were already here.
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America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.
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People hate searching.
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I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.
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Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
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The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
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My older brother, Jake, and I had a bohemian childhood. My parents are deeply unconventional people from the beatnik generation. They weren't married, and I thought that was normal. We called them by their first names.
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Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.
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'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart.
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You can find lots of people like you through technology, and women in particular like communities.
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I will revive the legend of the economic miracle, making the country a place where people have no worry about living and young people merrily go to work.
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There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.
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Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where people of all backgrounds come to have a good time.
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Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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I write most of my music in my house, which is like a tree house.
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The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn't have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities.
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I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.
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I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing.
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People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them.
