Susanna Kaysen Quotes
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.
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The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.
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The Melvins are grunge.
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The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
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Let's make Marco Rubio explain why he thinks oil companies should write our energy policy.
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You want people who choose to follow because they genuinely believe in ideas, not because they're afraid to be punished if they don't. For startups, there's so much pivoting that's required that if you have a bunch of sheep, you're in bad shape.
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I'm a Reuben kinda girl, but I'll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.
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If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character.
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The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
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How you gon' win when you ain't right within. Uh uh come again
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I honestly don't see how anyone can view the GOP and the Right as anything but evil.
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I think Syria is often covered by phone. You have to talk to activists. You have to try to read the tea leaves. You have to talk to government officials. It's remote-control reporting in a way.
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The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account.
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When you get into Louisiana, it really is like a different country in a lot of ways. The plants you see are a little different, like the weeping willows and the cypress trees that come up out of the bayou. And it's steamy hot.
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A thought is a hard thing to control.
