Renata Adler Quotes
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'Sixth Street' is probably a new chapter for me. All of the songs were written in my apartment where I'm most comfortable, and at that point, I understood who I was and knew what I was feeling about life.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
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I am Jewish, Italian, American, Catholic.
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If anything can, it is memory that will save humanity.
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Don't get disillusioned, no don't expect too much Cause if what you have is all you can get Just keep on trying It just ain't happened yet.
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There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter.
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The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.
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In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain had government health care, a government-owned car industry, massive government housing, and it was a shriveled high-unemployment socialist basket-case living off the dwindling cultural capital of its glorious past. In 1945, America emerged from the Second World War as the preeminent power on earth. Seventy years later . . . Let’s not go there.
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The United States must produce more students interested in math and science in order for our Nation to excel in an increasingly global economy.
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God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew....
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Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.
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He sat across from her and took her small hands in his own. "Babe, you don't have to carry the world. I've got it, okay?
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The type of work I like is pure and simple and profound.
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And I'm amazed at how many guys hit on you when you're brunette. I've had a few occasions where I've found a stray hand on my knee, which never happened when I was an icy blonde. Blokes obviously get drunk and think: 'I might as well try it on a brunette - she'll probably be grateful.'
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While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.
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My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.
