Beano Cook Quotes
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The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.
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Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
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He's just not that into you if he is a sociopath.
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Dance is not an exercise. Dance is an art.
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I got my computer. The great thing about the computer is that you only need enough money to buy a computer and some food, and you're all right. I don't have to go to premières.
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Computers are famous for difficulties. A difficulty is just a blockage from progress. You have to try a lot of things. When you finally find what works, it doesn't tell you a thing. It won't be the same tomorrow. Getting the computer to work is so often dealing with difficulties.
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The opposite of fragmentation is not homogenization, which is a suspicious form of unity. Who wants blending, anyway? And for what purpose? Blending, somehow, always ends up privileging the perspective of the blade.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.
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The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.
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“Free thought, free speech and a free press.”
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.
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I was never trying to be funny. Being funny feels to me like an alternate form of confessionality - that is, a way of dismantling the distance between writer and reader, a way of saying, "come in a little closer."
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In the new economy, we all have to be entrepreneurs with our own lives - with all the rewards and risks and, yes, anxieties that entails.
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Haven't they suffered enough?
