Andre Dubus Quotes
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth.
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For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.
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My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.
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On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood.
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The captain of the Hampshire grenadiers...has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire.
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We are not going to sit idly by and permit state actors to go after our information, our private-sector information or our public-sector information.
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'It makes me madder than a hornet to be disbelieved,' she explained.
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The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.
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The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
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I'm not a perfectionist at all. I find perfectionists boring because the real creative heart is in the mess somewhere.
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I've been a grant seeker all my life, but when I apply for one and get it, that means someone else doesn't. I didn't want to be a part of that anymore. I wanted to contribute to that pool and make it bigger.
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I see the people in the tabloids, the ones that get bad press, who have kind of gone off the edge, and I try to study them so that I don't do that. It seems like they lost focus at some point - that's the one thing they all have in common.
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This [2016] election was lost because a total of 70,000 people - out of 120-130 million votes - in the Rust belt, but as a result America is in the calamity.
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For our excess we lost everything.
