Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
He had already figured out a great universal truth, that people never asked for documentation of anything, as long as you asked them for documentation first.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
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There's competition at every phase of your life. The day we start thinking about it, you lose your peace of mind. I don't compete with anyone.
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I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.
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Ability is nothing without opportunity.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations – rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.
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It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.
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There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.
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I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.
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I started rapping since, like, 14. But I've been obsessed with rap from when I was 11. I heard 'Baby Don't Cry,' I'll never forget.
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What makes us Americans is something more than just the circumstances of birth, what we look like, what God we worship, but rather it is a joyful spirit of citizenship. Citizenship demands participation and responsibility, and service to our country and to one another. And few embody that more than our men and women in uniform.
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There's only one way to succeed: Show up, work hard, and do everything right. Regardless of who you might be or what kind of job you may have.
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When God saw that people, instead of turning to God, were turning to the medicine cabinet, God made himself available in the medicine cabinet.
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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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He had already figured out a great universal truth, that people never asked for documentation of anything, as long as you asked them for documentation first.
