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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When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion.
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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
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I had a blast doing it. I mean, I love, love, love my work as a voice over actress and I've been doing it for 15 years, but I've trained as a singer and I am a singer and this is what I've always wanted to do. To get the opportunity to marry these two things that I love so much, it's been a dream, without a doubt. I'm sort of pinching myself still.
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Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.
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I wish I could renounce politics.
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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.
