Tadeusz Borowski Quotes
It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible form of charity.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
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Bravo's 'Real Housewives' series isn't just entertainment for devoted fans like me - it's an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
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I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before.
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I exist as I am, that is enough.
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Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and they're more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios.
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Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.
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Everything in New Orleans was competitive. People would always be betting on who was the best and the greatest in everything. That's where the battles of music came in.
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It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible form of charity.
