Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
Society is the choice between freedom on someone else’s terms and slavery on yours.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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I enjoy seeing new places.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.
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The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?
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I have this group of friends that I'll send my scripts to before I send them to a large audience.
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Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.
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At Mass General in January 2007, Dr. Loeffler's team attached a ring-shaped metal frame to my head with four pins. Then I went to the radiation center, where they strapped me to the treatment table and secured the head frame so that I couldn't move.
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We're seeing a reaction - and people taking to the streets with pots and pans - in areas where the independence movement isn't supposed to exist. People have to choose between one model and another. Everyone in Catalonia has realised that not taking part means ratifying the politics of repression of the Spanish government.
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I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists or writers or journalists or filmmakers, is a projection of where we were born, what's been withheld or lavished upon us, our color, our sex, our class. And everything we do in life to some degree is a reflection of that context.
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When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.
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I don't really know that much about love, it turns out.
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If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.
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A baby is a very heavy thing, any mother will tell you.
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I was always the class clown and got kicked out of class at least once a day for just being a goofball. Not suspended or anything, just sit outside and look at the tree on the bench. I got benched a lot. You keep one foot on the bench and try to get as far away as possible.
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A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.
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We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.
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I don't only like rock music. There are other forms of music that I find interesting. I would want to do everything, every kind of music. I wouldn't want to be limited to like playing heavy metal or whatever.
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Society is the choice between freedom on someone else’s terms and slavery on yours.
