Rachel Kushner Quotes
I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.
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The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.
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The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism.
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If investors avoid the Treasury market, we could be unable to pay off maturing securities, which would mean an immediate default. Market participants generally agree that even a brief default would create potentially catastrophic risks to the financial system, like the meltdown of 2008.
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I think a lot of people are making music that shares their life experiences, and that's what I choose to do, too, but in my life experience, I also choose to try to find the hope in the music, and I think a lot of it has to do with my Christian faith.
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I was 21 and had been going out with my boyfriend for two years when I found out I was pregnant - despite being told by doctors that I was sterile. Jamie's father and I hadn't discussed marriage, and to me, it wasn't something to be entered into just to stop gossip.
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The kind of acting I used to enjoy no longer exists because your prime consideration is the budget, running time, the cost - and whether they'll understand it in Milwaukee.
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I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.
