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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I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.
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The tar sands has changed Canada in the same way the fur trade has changed Canada.
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Movies make teenagers have quippy answers for every question. Nothing seems to faze them, and they're like, 'Oh, whatever.' You're not like that when you're a teenager. You're really earnest. Things really feel like life or death. And you kind of oscillate between emotions at one time. It's very emotionally draining being a teenager.
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I think the problems with being older come when your body cannot do what your mind wants. Then, Houston, we have a problem.
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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.
