Renata Adler Quotes

My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.

Renata Adler

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• Dislike
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• Firing

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• My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.

  

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• If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.

  

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• What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.

  

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• It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.

  

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• If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.

  

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• Humans are the big thing that cause damage in life - in war or whatever - and if I can get away from that and into a wilderness situation, I'm OK. You can more or less live on your own merit.

  

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• Addictive drugs misuse the brain’s existing pre-programming, activating reward mechanisms and extreme feelings of pleasure. When stimulated, the brain’s pleasure centres emit signals to repeat the behaviour. In this sense, the brain is pre-programmed to feel good.

  

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• When you see some evil you proceed to immediate action, you make an immediate attack to cure the symptom.

  

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• Is this about you and Hassan? I know there's something going on between you two, but whatever it is, you have to deal with it, not me. I'm staying out of it.

  

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• You know, I have written about this and described it in many different settings, and I did misspeak the other day. This has been a very long campaign.

  

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• The gospel is a reasonable system, and it appeals to men's understanding; it is a matter for thought and consideration, and it appeals to the conscience and reflecting powers.

  

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• La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.

  

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• Convince me, but without convictions. Convictions no longer convince me.

  

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• New York City is one of the greatest places on the planet. You have the best in food, art, theatre, and definitely people-watching.

  

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• That's the thing that I'm really most proud of: that I'm still... people still would like to see me. I love seeing them.

  

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• I am methodical to the point of being obsessive-compulsive. And I have always been good at multi-tasking.

  

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• The failure mode of clever is 'asshole.'

  

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• To think that some people don't have clean water was mind-boggling to me.

  

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• I'm not panicking, and I'm not scared, I've been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis.

  

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• My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.

  

  Renata Adler
  • Mind
  • Consequences
  • Guns