Jonathan Franzen Quotes
It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.'
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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Some girls are just born with glitter in their veins.
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Failure to deport aliens who are convicted for criminal offenses puts whole communities at risk - especially immigrant communities in the very sanctuary jurisdictions that seek to protect the perpetrators.
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If we fail to realize our full potential as human beings, we live more on an animalistic level. This is fine for dogs, cats, and chimpanzees but doesn't work quite so well for women and men. Without the capacity to freely shape our own lives, much as a sculptor might carve stone, we inevitably slip into negativity and depression.
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I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense about morality, or with regard to what they value in life. I think this doubt about the application of science and reason to questions of value is really quite dangerous.
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It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.
