Paul Auster Quotes
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things well. In the end, he got his big thing, a once-in-a-generation revision to the basic social compact, a commitment of health coverage to nearly all Americans. He has yet to prove he can do it well.
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Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.
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I've never been strong with my time-management skills.
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The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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Exercise is important, but exercise in a gym is not important. Go and take a walk outside. Skip the umpteenth coffee date and go for a hike instead. Take the stairs. Walk your errands.
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I've never been too concerned with what I'm wearing, and that probably makes a lot of people angry, but I let the music do the talking and let the image be what it's going to be.
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And I communed with many different faiths and even when I wanted to be rebellious I never did not believe in Him. I never believed the people who said God was destructive or punishing.
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I mean, the Obama position has been, 'We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it.'
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In any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still at school.
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Most people are participating in the grand adventure of living with one another.
