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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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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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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If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.
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Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality, the imagination spins, weaving new patterns; a mixture of memories, experiences, free fancies, incongruities and improvisations.
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I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind.
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When you give your children certain life lessons, and they come and ask you for additional advice, you say to yourself, 'I've done my job,' and you'll continue to do your job.
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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.