Joan Didion Quotes
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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We will stand by the Paris climate deal.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
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I'll always be tough on myself.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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I like to think of myself as a 'Mord the jailer' type.
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When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.
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I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.
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Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
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If you're of multiple races, you have a different challenge, a unique challenge of embracing all of who you are but still finding a way to identify yourself and I think that's often hard for us to do.
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Human affairs require some combination of moral commitment with disciplined political action. And that is what keeps me intrigued and challenged and wanting to influence events.
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Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.
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The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this construction today that the West and Islam are entirely separate worlds. This is wrong.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's life.
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We have been fighting for solutions that will spur economic growth and create jobs for all Americans because we have been listening to what small business owners and employees have been telling us all along.
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I'm not comfortable leaving the apartment if the bed isn't made or a chair isn't tucked into the table.
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Powerful people never educate powerless people in what they need that they can use to take the power away from powerful people; it's too much to expect. If I was in power, I would not educate people in how to take my powers away.
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Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
