Adrienne Gusoff Quotes
Stay healthy—you can always kill yourself later. Abi gezunt—dos leben kayn men zikh alayn nemen. If I’m alive, I’ll see you Monday; if not, Tuesday. Oyb ikh leb’n, ikh oyt zayn du Montik; oyb nayt, Dinstik
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The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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I like to discover new things.
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Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
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You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.
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I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be dealing with. That's also where the anxiety comes from.
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It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see as oppressive or racist.
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Things are fluid in this world, and if you don't remain fluid, you get lost in the sauce.
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Joy is the serious business of Heaven.
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I'm a good friend.
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At the end of the day, all we're trying to do is get the hitter off balance. Get him in a position where he's not strong in the strike zone.
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Hollywood is driven by beautiful faces. Always has been.
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When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go back, but I had no choice but to stay here after the civil war, so I enrolled at Northwestern in a master's program and studied American literature.
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You don't go dancing in the day. You don't go golfing in the night.
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You might think that in today's world people are unlikely to start worshipping other gods. But sometimes people do worship 'other gods' without realizing it. False 'gods' are nearly always associated with the worship of three things: material possessions, possessive love, or power.
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No one was ever called by God to greater suffering than God's only begotten Son.
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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here.
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There’s something insupportable about being pissed with the one person on this planet that sends your adrenaline flowing to remind you that you’re alive. It’s almost like we’re mad because we’ve been shocked out of our usual comatose state of being by feeling something for someone, for ourselves, for just a moment.
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The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
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I didn't really know that much about the Maoists, but I just knew that they seemed to be so few and yet they painted themselves green and stood in front of the police waiting to get picked off.
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Stay healthy—you can always kill yourself later. Abi gezunt—dos leben kayn men zikh alayn nemen. If I’m alive, I’ll see you Monday; if not, Tuesday. Oyb ikh leb’n, ikh oyt zayn du Montik; oyb nayt, Dinstik
