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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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 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 explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.
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He vanished abruptly, like an eel going into mud.
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There is nothing more I should do to it now, and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go than at this moment.
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I'm really drawn to adventure, and characters being plucked from normal life and sent on extraordinary adventures.
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When you make successful movies, everyone on set takes care of you, everybody is so nice and you disconnect from reality.
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I've burned my own house down, the torch is in my hand.Now I'll burn down the house of anyone who wants to follow me.
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The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love.
