Jami Attenberg Quotes
Social media can connect you with other people in so many wonderful ways - but it can also make you really sick of yourself.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
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I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mean, it is the power of the stars. If we could bring that down to the laboratory and to the power plant on Earth, that would be an incredible thing.
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I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.
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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectifications of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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It may act as an ancillary factor, but by itself, the mutation in tau doesn't give you Alzheimer's disease. This is not to say the tau is not very important. It may be important in propagating the disorder from one cell to another. But as a causal mechanism, the evidence is strongest for beta amyloid abnormalities.
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Toronto's a delightful city.
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Social media can connect you with other people in so many wonderful ways - but it can also make you really sick of yourself.
