Ilan Stavans Quotes
At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.
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Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.
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I'm a character actor.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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Home is most important in the long run.
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I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
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I have unbelievable trust in my offensive line that they will get the job done. Not only them, but the running backs and as a quarterback, I have to do my job in getting the ball in the right people's hands and doing what I do best.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.
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If I splurge on anything, it's cologne. I love smelling good.
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Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.
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I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.
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The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
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Day by day, we let love just walk awayAnd I'll be the first to say, I was glad to see it goAnd day by day, ever since you went awayI'm finding I'm still missing you, and I just got to know...Does that blue moon ever shine on you?I wanna hold you close to me, feel just like it used to be.And baby, if you feel like I do,You can come to me.
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When a script like 'Hardflip' comes along, with a real depiction of the rewards of a father-son relationship but also the difficulties of building one, you have my attention.
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Thanks to the rise of cloud computing, collaboration tools are becoming increasingly affordable, allowing even the smallest firms to implement enterprise-grade solutions that can significantly improve communication lines between employees and customers.
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The anarch sticks to facts, not ideas. He suffers not for facts but because of them, and usually through his own fault, as in a traffic accident. Certainly, there are unforeseeable things – maltreatments. However, I believe I have attained a certain degree of self-distancing that allows me to regard this as an accident.
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I'm interested in questions my son asks me, like, "Why do animals fight? Why do you have to leave us to go on the road?" Everything he asks gets me thinking.
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At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.
