Susan Sontag Quotes
I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.
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I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
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Those who go along get along.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.
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If anyone should be executed, it should be Charles Manson. Do I go around during the daytime, 'Geez, I'm upset that he's alive'? No, I don't even think about him. I don't think about this case.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
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I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.
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In this life, all you need is for someone to believe in you.
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As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
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No one is more keen than me to see the Hunting Act repealed, because I believe in the management of wildlife.
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You fall for who the chemistry is with.
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If Assad continues to conduct strikes against the Free Syrian Army at will, it would be very difficult for them to have any success against ISIS.
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I fell in love with 'Star Trek' after J. J. Abrams's movie. I'm so into that.
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I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.
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I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.
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Chart positions are for people with manbags who get to work at 11 A.M. because they've been at a digital meeting.
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I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.
