Mary Gaitskill Quotes
For two people to satisfy everything each needs for their entire lives is a tall order. Some couples may be equipped to do this. Some are not.
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My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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I do love getting dressed up, but sometimes it's glam and edgy mixed together.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?
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I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.
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At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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I part of this great nation because my grandfather was born here, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He took a horse, back in 1895, and ride it all the way down to Guanajuato, looking for his American dream. No penny in his pocket, only dreams in his head. And he was an immigrant coming from the States into Mexico. And he found his American dream in Mexico.
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I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of.
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We claim no infallibility for our presentations.
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As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don't watch it.
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I think that there are more opportunities for young women in America than there are in Tanzania. But I also think there are many of the same problems.
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I think I live in this mythical world where doing the parts I do is not going to hurt me, and telling people my age is not going to hurt me. And it actually does. It's a bit sick-making but, you know, I can't change who I am.
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For two people to satisfy everything each needs for their entire lives is a tall order. Some couples may be equipped to do this. Some are not.
