Zeena Parkins Quotes
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
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There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.
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The beauty of man's being, fashioned as he is in the fairest of forms, demonstrates the existence of the Maker, while at the same time the fact that, together with his comprehensive abilities, lodged in that fairest of forms, he soon declines and dies, demonstrates the existence of the resurrection.
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I am a conservative type of person, so sometimes when I'm chilling with myself, people always come ask me, 'What's wrong with you? What are you wondering about?'
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'Narcos' was a very strong experience, not only artistically and politically, but as a human being.
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'One of the few benefits of the fall of civilization as we know it,' he says, 'is that there are private cellars with fine vintages everywhere one digs. It is not theft. It is archaeology.'
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I touched her thigh and death smiled
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It's like, you hungry, you reached your level. We asked ten years ago. We was asking with the Panthers. We was asking with them, the Civil Rights Movement. We was asking. Those people that asked are dead and in jail. So now what do you think we're gonna do? Ask?
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Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.
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I spend so much time with my parents. My mom and I were joined at the hip for five years. There was not one moment when I wasn't with her.
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For whatever reason, I enjoy eating soggy cereal.
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When I'm not thrilled, I get funny.
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I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.
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I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.
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Harvard was a kind of luxurious afternoon.
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My work shows how important it is that independent researchers should have access to data so that government statistics can be checked and so that the democratic debate within India can be informed by the different interpretations of different scholars.
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I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before.
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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
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When we say 'democracy' we have to mean what we say.
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My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.
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Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers' high hardback margins essentially disappear.
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'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.
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I was a dancer. I was really seriously into dancing.
