Susan Sontag Quotes
I guess I think I'm writing for people who are smarter than I am, because then I'll be doing something that's worth their time.
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.
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I was playing in the league when Ray Guy was playing in the league. He was the best kicker I've ever seen. He could bullet that ball 70 yards.
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I think sometimes people can get lost in the bigger special effects, science fiction, robot stuff, and those are cool and fun to watch, too, but I think it's so important to sometimes step back and watch something that's about life and human interaction.
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We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.
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In New Mexico... I may have vetoed more legislation as governor of New Mexico than all the other governors in the country combined.
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To me, the most worrisome part of traveling comes before any of the traveling actually occurs: the suitcase-packing process. It's a challenging and anxiety-filled process - I am caught between wanting my suitcase to be light and worrying I am going to need every single item in my bedroom.
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I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers were a new kind of nonwriting writer hatched by the movies-as Australia produced wingless birds. They wrote without pencils or even words. Using a sort of mime-like talent, they could make up things like writers.
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8: A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Be a player; don't play yourself. And don't play basketball. That's not your sport, Jeb Bush.
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Becoming a father increases your capacity for love and your level of patience. It opens up another door in a person - a door which you may not even have known was there. That's what I feel with my son. There's suddenly another level of love that expands. My son is my greatest joy, out of everything in my life.
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Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things.
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I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
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At the time I just was like, I can't believe I am on the show, and the first thing I have to do is an entire song and dance routine for the whole cast of 'Mad Men.'
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The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.
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Really, I don't like to do any household chores. There was a time when I loved to cook, but that was when I wasn't writing books.
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Several years ago, as I was transitioning from film finance to film production and writing again, someone asked me how long I would try to get back into filmmaking before I gave up? My response was "giving up" was not an option.
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Candidly, I've noticed that throughout my career, whether in offices that are majority male or majority female, the men are quick to advocate for themselves for a higher starting salary or more pay bumps over time.
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I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.
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I guess I think I'm writing for people who are smarter than I am, because then I'll be doing something that's worth their time.
