Elyn Saks Quotes

In a way, I had a very good and normal childhood. I had loving and caring parents. But I had a lot of quirks or problems when I was growing up. I had phobias and obsessions.

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• Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.

  

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• I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.

  

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• I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.

  

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• If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

  

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• I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.

  

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• I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.

  

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• In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
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• I have been the victim of heartless malice.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
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• When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.

  

  Randy Pausch
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• If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.

  

  Tamara Mellon
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• I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.

  

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• The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.

  

  J. J. Watt
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• But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

  

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• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

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• So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it's a federal issue.

  

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• I'd rather not get into what I'm talking about lyrically. I think it's impossible not to demystify a song when saying what it's about. Music and art can be damaged severely by too much information; I say that as somebody that has participated in that.

  

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• I just wanted to do a music show, with the whole realm of music from Ella Fitzgerald to rock bands like Cream to Kenny Rogers. We had a lot of country, but we did every kind of music. The Monkees were on, and so was Johnny Cash.

  

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• As a former career intelligence professional, I have a profound appreciation for the value of intelligence. Intelligence disrupts terrorist plots and thwarts attacks. Intelligence saves lives.

  

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• When I was 20, I was drinking. When I was 30, I was drinking more, and at 40, way too much.

  

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• Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.

  

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• In a way, I had a very good and normal childhood. I had loving and caring parents. But I had a lot of quirks or problems when I was growing up. I had phobias and obsessions.

  

  Elyn Saks
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