Michael Chabon Quotes
For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. ... I think it's just a natural human response to loss.
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The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My father had the same affliction, I guess.
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My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and the actor comes after that. If she likes something that I am wearing, she tells me, and if she doesn't, she still makes it a point to let me know.
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The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.
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It's not a bad time to be me.
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I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.
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The worst is feeling worthless.
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Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation.
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My mom always canned, and she taught us to take care of ourselves. She taught us everything from canning and sewing, and dad taught us everything we needed to know about farming.
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That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.
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All dread those things they don't understand.
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I never met a bitter person who was thankful. Or a thankful person who was bitter.
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I believe in a world of justice and human rights for all. A world where girls can grow up free of fear of abuse. A world where women are treated with the respect and dignity that is their right. A world where poverty is not acceptable. My dear young friends, you can make this your world.
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Good access to a doctor and a drugstore when you first have a problem can avoid a lot of cost and heartache later.
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The only reason that we humans and all creatures have made it thus far is because of the lessons learned consciously and unconsciously through the challenges we have been through.
