Rebecca Solnit Quotes
Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.
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I'm interested in ways that digital interfaces can be utilized as powerful narrative devices, and to engage people in new and exciting ways.
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As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
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The place where you're from defines who you are. You put yourself in the wrong situation, the wrong things happen.
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.
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It takes a while for executives to understand that every company is a spatial company, fundamentally: where are our assets, where are our customers, where are our sales. But when they get it, they light up and say, 'I want to get the geographic advantage.'
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Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass.
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Culturally, politically, everywhere you look... Read the newspaper. Go online. Our world has gone to hell.
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'Ray Donovan' is very dark and very serious. As actors will tell you, the darker and more serious the material, the more jokes that go around set. It's a counterbalance.
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I just want to create, and socializing is part of the experience. It might sound crazy, but I don't see myself in the jewelry business. It's an experience.
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Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market town?
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Romeo take me somewhere, we can be alone.I'll be waiting; all there's left to do is run.You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess,It's a love story, baby, just say yes.
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Don't take any shit from anybody!
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When you make a great record, it's around forever.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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I've got friends in the different teams I've played for, but family is the most important thing to me. That will always be the case.
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My ambitions are less important than my well-being. My children come first.
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Nichelle Nichols had decided leave the original Star Trek series after the first season. Fed up with racist harassment and limitation, culminating with her learning that studio executives were withholding her fan mail, she submitted her resignation. She withdrew it when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. convinced her that her role was too important a cultural breakthrough to leave.
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Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.
