Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
These things were made of hubris, because they always broke down, or worse, broke everything. But maybe Laurence had been right and these devices were what made us unique, as humans. We made machines, the way spiders made silk.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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The first step... shall be to lose the way.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.
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For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas.
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My message is not just to disabled people, but to everyone: You have to work hard.
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It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain.
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India needs to sustain its high growth rate.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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I can't speak for boys because I'm not one! But I just imagine they think differently.
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There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it.
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If inequalities of taxable wealth backing up a government service are construed as denying equality before the law, then there is no solution but to have every government service whatever financed out of Washington.
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I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.
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I take the time to look at my videos after a fight to see not what I did right but what I did wrong, to learn from those mistakes.
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You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger.
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.
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reasonable men, they went because we were there. There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads-they couldn’t be fair if they tried.
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Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
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Authenticity can't be replicated or faked. You're either real or you're not.
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Our government treats the LGBT community like second-class citizens.
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These things were made of hubris, because they always broke down, or worse, broke everything. But maybe Laurence had been right and these devices were what made us unique, as humans. We made machines, the way spiders made silk.
