Janet Malcolm Quotes
Journalists who swallow the subject's account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.
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I'm trying to find the balance and do, like, 'Spanglish' music or some songs in Spanish and others in English or do a translation.
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I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
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Think of Bitcoin as a bank account in the cloud, and it's completely decentralized: not the Swiss government, not the American government. It's all the participants in the network enforcing.
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Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.
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Today's kitchen is all about a well-planned space that makes cooking a completely interactive experience among family and friends.
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The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
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On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.
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If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplished.
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I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.
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I'm really into fashion, but I don't really spend that much on clothes. I manage to find everything I want at a good price.
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I always wanted to do a Disney movie.
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Before you act, consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searching out people who were out of tune, or stopping and starting me for hours in front of the band as they watched.
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Though every nation must do its part to address climate change, developed nations are responsible for the lion's share of carbon pollution in the atmosphere, and they have an obligation to help developing nations transition to a sustainable future.
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The motivations of kings in British history can generally be reduced to two: the quest for territory and the search for a male heir. No king was secure on his throne until he had a son, and no queen consort was ever really safe without a boy.
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As soon as I go out into the world, I belong, in a way, to everyone else. It's legal to follow me. It's legal to stalk me at the beach. And I can't call the police or ask them to leave.
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Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I'm at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa - I can't face going to bed. I'm there with the TV on and all the lights on. I'm not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.
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I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.
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Lithium remains the gold standard, but many drugs now treat bipolar disorder. Medication is critical and should be combined with psychotherapy. Compliance is a major problem. Patients believe that once they're better, they no longer need the medication. It doesn't work that way.
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I text my girlfriends. I look at Facebook. I check my e-mail. If I'm away from the news cycle more than a few hours, I feel out of touch.
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Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.
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Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.
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The principle of fasting is taught in almost all major world religions as a means of developing a higher level of self-mastery and self-control, and also a deeper awareness of how really dependent we are.
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Journalists who swallow the subject's account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.
