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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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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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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If Seth had read Mark's mind, this was an excellent progression. If not, then Mark had deceived himself, and Seth had gone along and taken advantage of the deception. And if Seth was a personification of my subconscious, then this would be an excellent example of subconscious fraud.
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In TV, when you come in to direct an episode, you are effectively learning an established language; you then have to try to learn to speak it really well. But on a movie, you are the guy. You are creating the language; you make most of the decisions.
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You don't put out music unless you have a sense that people will maybe like what you're doing or you're standing for something artistically.
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People are very hungry for something new. I think they are interested in being called to be a part of something larger than the sort of small, petty, slash-and-burn politics that we have been seeing over the last several years.
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'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting.
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The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.
