Jonathan Franzen Quotes
When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way.
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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov -
I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.
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Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.
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I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
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If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.
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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest.
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I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an alternative for people.
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When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way.
