Jonathan Franzen Quotes
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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In space, you need to exercise your heart since it's not pumping blood around at the same rate.
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I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.
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Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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Fabo is a real rock star, but people look over it, so I'll try to bring it to the light if I can.
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It's really crazy to be 36 years old and to have been doing something for 25 years.
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So we listen. We add up associations of people with people. When a push against Scientology starts somewhere, we go over the people involved and weed them out. Push vanishes.
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She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years, at peace in the contemplation of herself.
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Live records of mine are very painful to listen to because you always think you can do it better. I don't think I have a single favorite one.
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I'd been acting since I was a teenager. I'd come to the point where I was writing my own movies of the week for TV. That was fun.
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I hate Whole Foods.
