Susan Sontag Quotes
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If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
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I love everything to be organized and clean... all the time.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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I'm not an actress; I'm not a professional testifier.
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Working on 'Austin and Ally' has been an absolute dream! We literally have fun every single day! Whether it's scaring each other or singing together or just hanging out in each other's dressing rooms, the cast and I are super close! I feel really lucky to be with everyone on our set!
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I find the world pretty overwhelming, so I'm getting into meditation and doing lots of yoga. And I love my garden, and I love nature, and I feel like that grounds me and keeps my mind clear.
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Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased striving for anything resembling perfection when it comes to managing your money.
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I think I'm a million different faces.
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Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
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I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all these profiteers descend on Baton Rouge to lobby to get rid of the housing projects and privatise the school system - I thought I was in some science-fiction experiment.
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We should change the current economic system dominated by big business groups to a one where small and medium-sized enterprises develop together.
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So you don't have to take us too seriously; I mean, we're already intimidating enough on stage.
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One of the most startling discoveries of my career was when I realized that the strongest women in the world are not lesbians but heterosexual women, who know how to handle men.
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We are all fools when one wise man appears.
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'What is the secret of your serenity? Said the Master 'Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.'
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Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.
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What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.
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Ax: 100 Every thing doth naturally persevere in yt state in wch it is unlesse it bee interrupted by some externall cause, hence... [a] body once moved will always keepe ye same celerity, quantity & determination of its motion.
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I have, like, 45 celeb crushes at all times - celeb and Instagram crushes. I'm such a creep.
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A man is accountable to no person for his doings.
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I wasn't ever anybody who had a political thing against marriage, but I just thought, 'Why would I want to do that?'
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Not all violence is equally reprehensible; not all wars are equally unjust.
