Janet Malcolm Quotes
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Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it's not been satisfactory.
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Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
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I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill.
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You never forget where you come from.
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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
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I'm not interested in disposable music.
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If a character is supposed to be hated, my goal is to make her the most hated person on the show.
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There is a growing recognition of the importance of really bringing pollution under control.
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When creating an album, one of the first things you have to think about is what you want your production style to be.
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The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it's now time for us to stand up with our big round faces like the moon and say we have things to say, too. We have a round-faced agenda we want to push.
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What is science? yard-measure and scale to philosophy, expert-accountant, bank clerk. What is poetry? miserable, ill-fed, underpaid, unionized labourer, pleased to oblige, grateful for work, flattering himself that poverty makes him an aristocrat.
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I'm (Eugene) probably goin' to be promoted, and it'll be more than twenty bucks you'll get then, you just wait. You'll have enough to live on, Ma (Rose-Anna). You won't have to scrape all your life, the rest of us'll see to that.
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Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume. Hypocrisy, for all its bad reputation, at least showed a decent respect for goodness.
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It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.
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Prime Minister Maliki, released from American restraint, acted on his worst instincts, creating enormous distrust in Iraq's Kurdish population and deeply embittering Sunnis in western Iraq's Al Anbar, who lost any confidence in a Baghdad government they saw as adversarial.
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Unlike other Taliban groups, the Haqqanis' approach to mayhem was worldly and sophisticated: they recruited Arabs, Pakistanis, even Europeans, and they were influenced by the latest in radical Islamist thought.
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I fooled you. I fooled you. I got pig iron. I got pig iron. I got all pig iron.
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I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.
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I think of myself as more of a maker than a thinker.
