Andy Greenwald Quotes
This final sprint of Breaking Bad is like nothing I've ever seen. It's TV as a crescendo, as a magnet, as a wave. These episodes aren't ending so much as they're gasping for breath.
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As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
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I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.
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I seemed to have been born reading.
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I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!
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Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
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The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.
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I'm not sure if I'm going to get into coaching. I'm sure I'll stay in soccer somehow.
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Blanching the cloves removes the harsh and bitter bite of raw garlic.
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Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.
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What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it "temporary defeat.
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If a person's mind is controlled by forces of revenge and jealousy, it cannot express love & sympathy. And even if they show love and sympathy to others it will yield no good result. The thought will not be reflected in love but in hate.
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So no, I’m not too big on religion...and not very fond of politics or economics either...And why should I be? They are the man-created trinity of terrors that ravages the earth and deceives those I care about. What mental turmoil and anxiety does any human face that is not related to one of those three?
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Evil on itself shall back recoil.
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If you have just one person believe in you, you'll always find your way
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This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth.
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Tis moonlight, summer moonlight, All soft and still and fair; The solemn hour of midnight Breathes sweet thoughts everywhere, But most where trees are sending Their breezy boughs on high, Or stooping low are lending A shelter from the sky. And there in those wild bowers A lovely form is laid; Green grass and dew-steeped flowers Wave gently round her head.
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Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time.
