Zach Condon Quotes
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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Remember when Jay-Z wore a Che Guevara T-shirt? Nobody knew who Che was. Then Jay-Z wears it, and it's everywhere.
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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
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There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.
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If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.
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For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily.
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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Songwriters often seek the company of fellow songwriters to help finish what they've started, and these days, many do it at songwriting camps.
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How is it having more control if there is double the immigration as there would be under an Australian style points system?
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A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.
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When you're speaking very articulately and you're poised and you hold yourself well, that to me seems to indicate a certain way of being in life. You're in a certain place. And, whenever you break up with someone of many years, you tend to go down spiraling out of control, down some rabbit hole of sorts.
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All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
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I'm swept along by larger forces out of my control.
