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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No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
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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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While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every last person out there isn't dating a writer.
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In the larger world, tribalism is an enormous problem, as it ever has been: both strength and idiocy borne from belonging.
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What haunts me is not exactly the absence of literal space so much as a deep craving for metaphorical space: release, escape, some kind of open-ended freedom.
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My colleagues and I were always having the same conversation in the teachers lunchroom about books we wanted our students to read, a field trip we knew would really bring a subject matter to life... And most of us would go into our own pockets to buy just paper and pencils.
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So much beauty in the world, so few eyes to see it.
