Hanya Yanagihara Quotes
The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
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I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.
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Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.
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There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime.
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It's a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.
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Luckily I don't have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I'm off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy a pair of vintage combat boots because they were so beaten up - I had to have them.
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, "Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more."
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But however mysterious is nature, however ignorant the doctor, however imperfect the present state of physical science, the patronage and the success of quacks and quackeries are infinitely more wonderful than those of honest and laborious men of science and their careful experiments.
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Contrary to what we've been taught, genes do not determine physical and character traits on their own. Rather, they interact with the environment in a dynamic, ongoing process that produces and continually refines an individual
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The emotions triggered by fiction are very real. When Charles Dickens wrote about the death of Little Nell in the 1840s, people wept - and I'm sure that the death of characters in J.K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter' series led to similar tears.
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It is a well known fact that the majority of men today are relatively weak, whereas the struggle for existence demands now more than at any previous epoch that we should all be strong
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The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary.
