Joan Didion Quotes
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
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I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.
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The patchwork political landscape of the Arab world - the client monarchies, degenerated nationalist dictatorships, and the imperial petrol stations known as the Gulf states - was the outcome of an intensive experience of Anglo-French colonialism.
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I did go through a phase where I played videogames quite often, but I haven't in a few years.
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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.
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We're fabricating a state-of-the-art concessions system for our touring, so we can feed the people and give them everything they need without having to wait on it.
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Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.
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Any movement at all that reduces disease, that reduces overdoses, that reduces property crime, that reduces violent crime, is good.
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I am not struggling. What I do, it is what I do.
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Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
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Lookin' so innocent,I might believe you if I didn't know.Could'a loved you all my life,If you hadn't left me waiting in the cold.And you got your share of secrets,And I'm tired of being last to know.And now you're asking me to listen'Cause it's worked each time before.
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Ὀλβίσαι δὲ χρὴβίον τελευτήσαντ' ἐν εὐεστοῖ φίλῃ.
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So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.
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Несчастные эгоистичны, злы, несправедливы, жестоки и менее, чем глупцы, способны понимать друг друга. Не соединяет, а разъединяет людей несчастье...
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It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.
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An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.
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Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts
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I don't think the philosophy really changes between men and women. I think golf courses need to become more distance-friendly overall. I think golf courses almost need to develop a more generic set of tees instead of calling them black, blue, red or whatever.
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I could only relax when there was just one tiny white last spot left. I could see more clearly. I could grasp the shape of the picture again... The pictures are alive because of the white remnant, the almost concealment.
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The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.
