Madison Smartt Bell Quotes
Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well.
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If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.
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Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.
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We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.
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I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke.
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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
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I don't spend a lot of money on clothes, which is weird because I am a fashion model, but when it comes to the new collections coming out, I am just praying designers send it to me for free.
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I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.
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I am an independent, strong-willed, free, and unfettered individual who lets his wife decide for him what he wants to eat.
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I try hope that in the end, we will live in a cancer-free world. We want to live disease-free lives.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.
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I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.
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Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
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People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.
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Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's the way of the world.
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Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.
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I went to school for one year. It was the best experience but the worst experience. The best experience because I was, like, 'Oh, now I know why kids are so depressed.' But it was the worst experience because I was depressed.
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Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well.
