Jay Asher Quotes
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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I do not consider myself beautiful.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor.
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The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.
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I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
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The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.
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Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.
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To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.
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I think that a classic style in writing tends to remove the reader one level from the immediacy of the experience. For any normal reader, I think a colloquial style makes him feel more as though he is within the action, instead of just reading about it.
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This is what it is to be human: to see the essential existential futility of all action, all striving -- and to act, to strive. This is what it is to be human: to reach forever beyond your grasp. This is what it is to be human: to live forever or die trying. This is what it is to be human: to perpetually ask the unanswerable questions, in the hope that the asking of them will somehow hasten the day when they will be answered. This is what it is to be human: to strive in the face of the certainty of failure. This is what it is to be human: to persist.
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Every action we have is going to have repercussions in ways we could not anticipate.