Paul de Man Quotes
The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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Being that I always perform, I started working out with a trainer to get that endurance and stamina. Now, I guess you could call me a gym rat.
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When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.
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This is America, not a banana republic.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
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I never get to the end of mortifying sin because sin in my heart, where it's still marauding even though it's no longer dominant, sin in my heart is constantly expressing itself in new disorderly desires.
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Randal can write one-liners again. Everyone is happy, and peace spreads over the whole Earth.
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People feel good about doing things with you if you're enthusiastic.
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If you don't optimize for the consumer on the Internet, you're dead.
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I had never, ever drunk beer in high school, and by the time I got to Tech we were having these parties out in the cotton fields and getting so drunk. I was the champion beer drinker; suddenly I was pouring it down my throat... Insane! Insane!
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Comedy writing is the hardest, and yet there's so much that's relatable in it.
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I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.
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I don't know about the world, but I know kids. And I feel like sometimes kids don't get involved because they think, what can I do? I'm just a kid. And really kids can do so much.
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I do think we need to at least register artificial intelligence units to be able to monitor and control them. Because we want to control them and not vice versa.
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If we want to be the banker to every Indian as we want to be, then we will have to use technology.
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My father named me Kelli because 'Kelli O'Hara' just sounded so Irish.
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The rivers flow long distances and their goodness spreads all over far and wide. We are far from each other but our love for each other is creating a story that will forever be remembered.
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Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
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The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.
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A lot of times when people get copied, they get copied and washed out. But you can't even duplicate how we do it because it's just so genuine. It's just us.
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The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.
