Dahlia Lithwick Quotes
The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.
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I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.
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It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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I wouldn't object to working with any former member of Yes, really.
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I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders.
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I cannot take you out and say you are separate from the whole. If someone says to me, "Well, how do I find my life purpose?" I first say, "You've never lost your life purpose." Number two, I say, "Have no judgments about your life. No expectations. Give up the need to know what happens tomorrow. Just be fully present and appreciate all that is in your life right now."
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The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.
