Deborah Eisenberg Quotes
I would say the reason that I've never written a novel is because I've never written a novel.
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For us to stay competitive, we're transforming our services business to be reliable and flexible.
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A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.
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Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the best, the city on the hill. In fact the great American task is self-scrutiny.
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For everyone, 'Star Wars' has been a part of their lives in some capacity. I remember watching it very early on with my cousins and my brother, and we were all cuddled around the VHS player, which sounds very old-fashioned, but that was the way then.
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Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.
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I love England and I love English culture, particularly English pop culture.
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From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were - I have not seenAs others saw - I could not bringMy passions from a common spring - From the same source I have not takenMy sorrow - I could not awakenMy heart to joy at the same tone - And all I lov'd - I lov'd alone -
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You've got your whole life to do something,And that's not very long.So why don't you give me a callWhen you're willing to fightFor what you think is real,For what you think is right.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.
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There's no reason not to stand for this song, come on, if you stand we'll buy you all ice cream
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253. At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded.
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The Confederacy was so entwined with the idea of preserving slavery that the flag, even today, can evoke racial polarization...
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In D&D, I love playing the first guy through the door - the guy with the battle-axe. 'Where are the bad guys? Just point me at 'em!'
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I know that I can beat everybody, and this is what also gives me a lot of confidence and motivation for going out there and playing with a lot of emotion.
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A lot of people talk about running for office, but what are you going to do when you get there? It's about service - and there aren't enough hours in the day.
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At least in part, people are attracted to subjects where they can identify at a basic level with the people who do it. The extraordinary aesthetic of the natural world is not obvious to someone who never leaves the inner city. Appreciation of the elegance and power of physical law is an acquired taste.
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I do feel like the blogs that I follow share an aesthetic and draw a lot from '90s influences.
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Yoga changed my life. I go between 4 and 6 times a week. It's incredibly grounding and an intense level of focus.
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You got to realise that when I was 20 years old, I had a house, a Mercedes, a Corvette and a million dollars in the bank before I could buy alcohol legally.
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I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner.
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There are degrees and kinds of solitude. … I know of no solitude so secure as one guarded by a spring flood; nor do the geese, who have seen more kinds and degrees of aloneness than I have.
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Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsifiable, as long as it is verifiable.
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I used to approach writing like a football game. If I went out there and aggressively saw more, I'd know more, and I'd capture more, and I'd write better. Hut, hut, hut: First down and haiku!
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I would say the reason that I've never written a novel is because I've never written a novel.
