Rabih Alameddine Quotes
I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.
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I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.
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They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.
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I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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While all the pomp and circumstance of war animated others, it only saddened me; and all of past reflection, all of future dread, made the whole grandeur of the martial scene, and all the delusive seduction of martial music, fill my eyes frequently with tears.
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For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.
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I have turned down a lot of garbage lately.
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When I've ridden in parades, I always throw to the kids, the elderly and anyone who is smiling and having a great time. I try to make eye contact with the person. If you catch a ton and a kid nearby hasn't caught much, share.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.
