Steven Millhauser Quotes
I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, maybe black men and women will follow their example. We have a lot of faith and trust in President Obama because his integrity thus far has shown us a new level of manhood, fatherhood and husbandhood.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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My dad is afraid of my laugh.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
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I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.
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Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
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All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.
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I just don't think that I trust men. That's the problem. I can appreciate a beautiful-looking man, but he's not my type.
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Your traditions change from when you are child to when you become an adult.
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Nobody said democracies supposed to be easy. It's hard. And in a big country like America, it probably should be hard.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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I tend to hear rhythm and melody, chord-progressions, long before I hear words.
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This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal minded the whole world is a family.
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I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.
