Walter Benjamin Quotes
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.
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If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.
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You have no idea how long a year is until you’re stone sober.
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If America is about anything, she is about freedom. We have seen in the burgeoning Department of Homeland Security and at our airports and in the color-coded alerts the beginning of the erosion of that freedom.
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For the vast majority of my adult life, I was a freelance writer, forever scrambling for work that paid an insulting non-amount.
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Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning... it's a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
