Shana Alexander Quotes
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.
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Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
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From now back to the past, we can observe clearly that none of us is free.
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Rates of black poverty have decreased. Black teen-pregnancy rates are at record lows - and the gap between black and white teen-pregnancy rates has shrunk significantly. But such progress rests on a shaky foundation, and fault lines are everywhere.
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I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
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I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.
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You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
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It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity: ultimately, my parents' marker is 'Do you have a wife?' and 'Do you have children?'
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p. 63
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What difference does it make, whether we keep our silence because they force us or because we're afraid they might force us?
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The stampede toward 'rational expectations' - widely thought to be a 'revolution,' though it was only a generalization of the neoclassical idea of equilibrium-derailed the expectations-driven model building that had just left the station. In the end, this way of modeling has not illuminated how the world economy works.
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Ahchoo:Man, white men can't jump!!
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As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
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I feel prematurely old. I'm actually having this major belated quarter-life crisis. I'm turning 30 in a couple of weeks. I've been thinking a lot about mortality. A lot about what I'm going to do with my life and how to enjoy it. One of the things I'm going to work on is being more spontaneous, letting go, embracing the beauty of come-what-may.
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The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love.
