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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Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.
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There are institutional obligations I have to carry out that are important for a president of the United States to carry out, but may not always align with what I think would move the ball down the field on the issues that I care most deeply about.
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I was the guy who was friends with everybody. Yes, I had my core group of friends, but I wasn't part of a clique that excluded people. I hope they thought I was a nice guy. I tried to be just friendly and outgoing. I was class president. I'm supposed to run my class reunion in 2013.
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These people who have everything at their disposal as far as cash and connections, I think they just get so mired in the business side of things that they don't just sit at home and record records. Anybody can do that.
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The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love.
