Albert Cossery Quotes
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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I hate competition.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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See, Ebola, like all threats to humanity, it's fueled by mistrust and distraction and division. When we build barriers amongst ourselves, and we fight amongst ourselves, the virus thrives. But unlike all threats to humanity, Ebola is one where we're actually all the same. We're all in this fight together.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
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Gooseberries aren't just for creamy desserts and pies.
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When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.
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My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.
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I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.
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You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.
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I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow.
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When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.
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The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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I write a lot of songs about my impressions from a man's point of view.
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So much beauty in the world, so few eyes to see it.
