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'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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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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In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.
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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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A lot of my favourite books - I should say, not much happens in the books! It's much more about the points of view of the author more than anything else.
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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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The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.
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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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I have always been a strong champion for New Hampshire's environment.
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It's time to begin righting the story of your life.
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I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.
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I grew up in the '50s, in New York City, where television was born. There were 90 live shows every week, and they used a lot of kids. There were schools just for these kids. There was a whole world that doesn't exist anymore.
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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.
