Rabih Alameddine Quotes
I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
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Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
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We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it's an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.
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I told my boyfriend after three weeks that I wanted to marry him and that we could do it tomorrow.
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I was lying in a burned out basementWith the full moon in my eyes.I was hoping for replacementWhen the sun burst through the sky.There was a band playing in my headAnd I felt like getting high.I was thinking about what aFriend had saidI was hoping it was a lie.
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I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage, when you're younger, you keep thinking you can fix things. That's what people do. And you can't really fix anything. It shouldn't be a massive difficult thing every day. Life's difficult enough.
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I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.
