Susan Orlean Quotes
Destroying a culture’s books is sentencing it to something worse than death: It is sentencing it to seem as if it never lived.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
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The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
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Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
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I'm a man without a corporation.
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I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.
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My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.
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We believe in the dignity of man as an individual, whatever his race, colour or creed, and his right to better, fuller, and richer life.
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It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
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I think the reason why people have trouble fighting me is because I don't come from a specific background, and they can't prepare to fight me. I come in, and I push the pace, and I think that pushes a lot of people off their game, as much as I push the pace through the whole fight.
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You can only go into science because you're interested in it.
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The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.
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When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.
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But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.
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La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
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One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
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If you come to our country, don't expect to be taken care of, to be looked after, that your children will be educated without charge.
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Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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The thing I don't like about L.A. is that it's very industry-focused. That's not bad for kids. It's not hedonistic or anything, not any more shallow than anybody in the Midwest. It's not that.
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Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to keep and what to unload.
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Destroying a culture’s books is sentencing it to something worse than death: It is sentencing it to seem as if it never lived.
