Alice Steinbach Quotes
What is the purpose of memory? Is it a trick to make sure we don't forget who we are by reminding us of who we were?
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I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.
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We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases.
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Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.
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I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.
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We don't spend so much time on the opponent that we forget it's really about us.
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I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our sense of who we are and yet elusive, ever-changing, fragmentary. One way to look at this is to say that, therefore, we ourselves are elusive, ever-changing and fragmentary to ourselves.
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When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.
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There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
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Let's not forget, I got divorced.
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My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.
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I accomplished something big and that's a memory I will never forget.
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The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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My purpose is far greater than my pain.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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In all great epochs of history, the existence of standards - that is, the conscious adoption of type-forms - has been the criterion of a polite, well-ordered society; for it is a commonplace that repetition of the same things for the same purpose exercises a settling and civilizing influence on men's minds.
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'How to Survive a Plague' is history-telling at its best. It's a film I'll show my two children, now toddlers, when they are old enough to understand. It's a movie that I cannot forget.
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If Selma taught us anything, it’s that our work is never done. The American experiment in self-government gives work and purpose to each generation.
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'Heartbreak House' was a lot of fun for me. I must have missed that day at school. I'd never read it or seen it. It's one of those things that a lot of people are familiar with.
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I love Thai boat noodles: They are kind of like pho, but with a very hearty broth. I will make the broth and just do no noodles and more bean sprouts. I need to be able to eat what I want to eat, so I just get rid of as many carbs as possible that go into it.
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The fact that my students could be in a little college in a little college town on the coast of Rhode Island, and be connecting in other countries with other people, did open them up and empower them and their sense of being. Whether it affected their writing, it's hard to tell.
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What role was she expected to play in his life, and more important, in her own?
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What is the purpose of memory? Is it a trick to make sure we don't forget who we are by reminding us of who we were?
