Susan Minot Quotes
When a person you love moves by you with flat eyes that will not see you, it is a shock to believe it.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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I'm obsessed with 'Top Chef'.
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I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.
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I buy way too many books.
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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If you pay your credit card off every month, get a rewards card. One that gives you airline miles or that will give you 1 percent cash back at least on every purchase.
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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
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Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.
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The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism.
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The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
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I don't understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That's not gonna work out, you know? It's a waste of your time!
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We thought a human city is kind of like that watering hole. It's where different groups come together and have to find ways to live and survive and cohabit and cooperate, but they may not always see eye-to-eye.
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I am a tumbleweed. I don't have a company. I don't have a staff. I don't own anything - I've never owned a car or an apartment.
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I'm usually pretty good about meeting people. I try to remember they are human, too!
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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If you're building a social product, you're still living in the last century if your product doesn't work on Facebook.
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The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them.
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A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.
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I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.
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When a person you love moves by you with flat eyes that will not see you, it is a shock to believe it.
