Hanna Rosin Quotes
Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.
Quotes to Explore
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History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
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If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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When I hear an interview that I've done, and I've said 'like' a bunch of times, it just cheapens the sentiment.
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
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How do you let go of attachment to things? Don't even try. It's impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.
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I think humor is such a personal thing, and you put a microphone in somebody's face, they're going to say something that offends somebody.
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Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.
