Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
Someone who doesn’t care if they get Tater Tots or turnip slurry is a person who has given up on life.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
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Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.
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If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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I'm very independent.
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There's something so great about being with your nephew and, when you're tired, just handing him off back to your sister.
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Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.
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'Yield' was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
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All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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I like to wear tight jeans. Most of my stuff is pretty slim fit.
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A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.
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Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.
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I exercise about 40 minutes a day, and I'll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains, so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home, I'll do the circuit training with old weights, along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff.
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The ancient Egyptians were Negroes. The moral fruit of their civilization is to be counted among the assets of the Black world.
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Most Americans are aware of the brutality and injustice used to maintain the excesses of their selfish consumer society and empire. Yet I suspect...they do not care. They don’t want to see what is done in their name. They do not want to look at the rows of flag-draped coffins, the horribly maimed bodies and faces of veterans, or the human suffering in the blighted and deserted former manufacturing centers. It is too upsetting. Government and corporate censorship is therefore welcomed and appreciated.
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Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.
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And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is chiefly concerned with the establishment of something new.
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Someone who doesn’t care if they get Tater Tots or turnip slurry is a person who has given up on life.
