Alice Crary Quotes
All human beings - not merely neuro-typicals - need to be seen in ethics in the light of a conception of what is humanly important.
Quotes to Explore
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It's important not to think about Bitcoin as a replacement for cash or gold or something that works alongside that; it's to think of it as programmable money. And we just cannot even imagine what that will be used for.
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Psychiatry causes so much death.
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What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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You don't try to do more than you should.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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Life doesn't stop with football.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
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It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.
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I fed my ego, but not my soul.
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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
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I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.
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The United States and the Obama administration have consistently opposed the delegitimation of Israel. We've also consistently pushed for legitimation of Israel across the U.N. system. We uniformly oppose one-sided actions designed to punish Israel, and we will continue to do so.
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Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
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I've been dying to go to India, especially to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. I've also heard Bollywood town's a lot of fun!
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One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
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Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.
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No matter what we're trying to accomplish in life, or what career path we're trying to take, sometimes we get caught up and lose perspective on what's important in life.
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To be fully and authentically human, we have to be prepared to take off the armor we usually go around wearing to keep the world from hurting us. We have to be prepared to accept pain, or else we will never dare to hope or to love
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All human beings - not merely neuro-typicals - need to be seen in ethics in the light of a conception of what is humanly important.
