Susan Isaacs Quotes
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
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My whole career has been from scratch, so I never took it for granted that people care and support what I do.
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The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the Earth.
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The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.
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I don't feel that I'm particularly political. I'm interested in politics; I'll express my view if I feel strongly about something, but humanitarian issues, I think, are slightly different.
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I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.
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The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology, with all its miraculous machinery, must go.
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The light came through the window, Straight from the sun above, And so inside my little room There plunged the rays of Love.In streams of light I clearly saw The dust you seldom see, Out of which the Nameless makes A Name for one like me.
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I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.
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If I'm going to work for twelve hours a day, I want twelve hours of awesomeness!
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I think photography is closest to writing, not painting. It's closest to writing because you are using this machine to convey an idea. The image shouldn't need a caption; it should already convey an idea.
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The fact is that more and more people are developing a sensitivity to gluten, without necessarily being allergic to it.
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I don't go to things because I want to see violence, I go to things because I want to see them handled well.
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Do I ever think Gossip will be really massive in America? No, I don't think it'll happen - and that's fine. It's kind of nice because I get to experience everything at once. I get to come home and it not be weird, like in Paris or something. It is nice to be completely anonymous.
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Personally, I think there's a lot to recommend being friends with your ex, and I'm glad to admit that I'm living proof of its possibility.
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I loved when my boyfriends would call me their Amazon girl.
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Imagination without reason produces impossible monsters; with reason, it becomes the mother of the arts, and the source of its marvels.
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After I handed over all my authority, I feel now our struggle [for Tibet ] become much, much safer. And me personally, the day I officially handed over, that night, very unusual sound. I am quite free now.
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There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating words... the language of the schools which 'situates' works and artists in schools and movements... novelists and poets [that] see paintings as allegories of writing.
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I see myself as writing biographies, the complete story of someone's life.
