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.

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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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The most important thing, I've found, is to be self-reliant.
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The fifties were when people started coming down on 'juvenile delinquents,' 'hoodlums,' 'vandals'-anybody that was young, wore a motorcycle jacket, and didn't act polite around older people.
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Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
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I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside.
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Although individual states have primary responsibility for conducting fair and impartial elections, the FBI becomes involved when paramount federal interests are affected or electoral abuse occurs.
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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.