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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I understand the importance of political power, so I will use my strength and influence to convince as many people as I can within the party and outside the party that a Palestinian state is bad news for Israel.
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You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.
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I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.
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We shouldn't force ourselves to do something that really is just painful to us. If there is a discrepancy between what we are doing or putting our bodies through and then what our minds are telling us, you really have to look at yourself, and the most essential part of it is the pleasure aspect.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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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.