Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Quotes
When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996 after a searing, four-year civil war, they immediately instituted laws which fit their utopic vision of the time of Islam's founding more than 1,300 years earlier. Afghan women's lives offered the most visible sign of the imagined past to which Afghanistan's present was to be returned.
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'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
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I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
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Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.
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In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.
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I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.
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Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
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I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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I find out more about Jack every week. Essentially, I'm the same character, but I'm having more fun this season because I'm doing more aliases, you know. I like the surprise of not knowing.
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I don't know if I like being the sentimental favorite.
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I'm only going to get better and better. Not going to get worse.
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I have to work at tunes to get them to come out. Sometimes I'll sit there for four or five hours and get absolutely nothing.
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Of course, I do occasionally arouse primeval instincts, but I mean, most men can do that. They can't do it to so many. I just happen to be able to do it to several thousand people. It's fun to do that.
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The core of people don't change... what you see is what you get.
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When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996 after a searing, four-year civil war, they immediately instituted laws which fit their utopic vision of the time of Islam's founding more than 1,300 years earlier. Afghan women's lives offered the most visible sign of the imagined past to which Afghanistan's present was to be returned.
