Nathan Englander Quotes
Empathy is what obsesses me. And watching empathy recede in the world is terrifying.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
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The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.
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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
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I love Shirley Maclaine. Love that woman.
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Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.
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People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.
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The city and the crowd unidealise love; and love, in the young warm heart of a girl, should be a dream apart from all commoner emotions - as sweet and as ethereal as the blush with which it is born and dies. Beauty gives its own gracefulness to love - there must be romance blended with the passion inspired by the very lovely face which the mirror reflected.
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we made love on the living room floorwith the noise in the background of a televised warand in that defeaning pleasure i thought i heard someone sayif we walk away they'll walk away
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I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
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Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.
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Los Angeles is a true postmodern city. Here, we celebrate with equal aplomb the high and the low. I am just as influenced by the punk rock attitude of local skate and surf cultures as I am by old-school glamour and stardust.
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I was shying away from acting for the longest time - because of having such big shoes to fill.
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Much of my adult life has been spent fighting for equal opportunity, and the idea that I would support limiting opportunity for any segment of society, particularly women, is antithetical to who I am and what I have done.
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Here I was, this good guy that played football; I was gonna go play in college but I had a bad senior year. But I played guitar in assemblies whenever I could.
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Basically, though, I believe in eating well, not eating too much but eating a variety of foods.
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I am determined to go through the horror of this world.
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Fighting was something inside of me that I didn't realize was there.
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I will count to 10 before tweeting.
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You know, when companies who have made a commitment and have legacy costs and all of a sudden want to walk away from that commitment and lay it on the federal government, that's a problem. It's a fiscal problem for us.
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Empathy is what obsesses me. And watching empathy recede in the world is terrifying.
