Amy-Jill Levine Quotes
Reducing parables to a single meaning destroys their aesthetic as well as ethical potential.
Amy-Jill Levine
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
Eckhart Tolle
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My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.
Edmund Phelps
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
Larry Wall
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
Tamora Pierce
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There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.
J. D. Salinger
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When you're 21, you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40 and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.
Kate Winslet
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There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountains. And I was like... 'There's mountains? Snowcap mountains?' That's insane; I've been there for thirteen years, and I've never seen that view before, seeing the mountains in the distance.
A. J. Buckley
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
Ian MacKaye
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I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job.
Adam Hughes
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I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
Taylor Phinney
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In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.
Maajid Nawaz
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In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
Karl Abraham
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Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home.
Taslima Nasrin
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I wanted to be great. And I loved Nashville, so that made it easy. I loved the music business. It made it easy for me to stay and make a life here.
Brandy Clark
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I never accepted the premise that meetings themselves were bad.
Patrick Lencioni
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If one asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him: It means all that the Constitution of our people, organizing for justice, for liberty, and for happiness, meant. Our flag carries American ideas, American history and American feelings. This American flag was the safeguard of liberty. It was an ordinance of liberty by the people, for the people. That it meant, that it means, and, by the blessing of God, that it shall mean to the end of time!
Henry Ward Beecher
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Reducing parables to a single meaning destroys their aesthetic as well as ethical potential.
Amy-Jill Levine
