Susannah Cahalan Quotes
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
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Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
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I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.
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My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.
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Whenever I am asked about my personal relationships, I politely reply, 'No comments.'
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I can't say that I've made the transition to movies.
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The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
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I entered politics from a completely different background from other people in this field, and that has helped me to see and deal with things differently.
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How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.
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Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.
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Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
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Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.
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As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.
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What is government but an arrangement by which the many accept the authority of the few?
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India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
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When I was there, something clicked in my head; I found myself interviewing people, searching out facts and figures. Later on I became much more self-conscious of what I was doing.
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I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. If you don't like it, you just don't follow it. And if you don't like a movie you don't watch it. Watch another movie.
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To see my story turned into a movie is mind-blowing.
