Paul Auster Quotes
I think the act of talking about something - with a friend, or someone in your family, or someone you care about, and you're discussing something that you both admire - can often sharpen your thoughts about what you've read or seen and help you think more clearly about it.
Quotes to Explore
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The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.
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I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest.
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There is a machismo about an American male who is robust, athletic, able to build things, and he takes care of stuff. And it's a point of pride.
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I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unlike any picture I have seen anywhere else, based on material at Princeton and 35 years of researching and thinking about him.
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I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
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I like PETA as a group for many reasons, but one of the reasons that I admire them is that they say and do the things that other groups won't do.
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We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.
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My father died in France, and my sisters and I went over with my mum to bring back his body. I remember going to the funeral parlour in France and being given a laminated menu of coffins, and thinking, surely there is an ice cream at the back of here!
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I remember for my 18th birthday, I was going to get a tattoo, and I made the mistake of thinking I was a man and telling my father, and he was like, 'Oh yeah? You better tattoo a new address on your arm, because you're not living here!' And that was the end of that discussion.
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I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.
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A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
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Nurses are an integral component of the health care system, and it is important that we recognize the over 2.7 million registered nurses for the significant work that they do.
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For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or care about feminism anymore, that it's totally over. But it's not.
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I took the batteries out my mysticism And put them in my thinking cap
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Donald Trump thinks all press is good press. And I think he believes that he's putting everybody on a psychological disadvantage.
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I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn't care about any of it.
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There's no one thing you can do to have success, but if you have a plan and you keep doing things, you'll eventually build to a success.
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I think the act of talking about something - with a friend, or someone in your family, or someone you care about, and you're discussing something that you both admire - can often sharpen your thoughts about what you've read or seen and help you think more clearly about it.
