Alan Weisman Quotes
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.
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I haven't actually studied acting at all.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.
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I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep track actually, because it's not that important. I just am who I am.
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A big blockbuster like 'Kick' expands the audience for my films and makes it easier to promote them.
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I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
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Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.
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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.
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Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.
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How can art be realized?
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Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.
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I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time.
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All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.
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Loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round.
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The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.
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To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
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You don't go into the game to compete. You go into each game to win.
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But the Earth holds ghosts, even of entire nations.
