Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
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One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.
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I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.
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Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
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I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.
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I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
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So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.
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Social media has colonized what was once a sacred space occupied by emptiness: the space reserved for thought and creativity.
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When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
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My parents didn't give me any scope to feel sorry for myself. They were just like 'go play with your brother, go climb a tree, go fall off your motorbike, do whatever you want. Don't come crying to us when you get scratched. You've got prosthetic legs - that's very nice.'
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What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.
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I floated around in the department of biochemistry and learned some interesting things, and then I began to... I never wanted to work with a mentor because I always wanted to have my own reputation and be free to do what I wanted to do. So I worked with the weakest people in the department. Don't make that public.
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I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.
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I love watching a good, freaky horror movie. I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do, to go and see at the cinema. Just to tune out and be freaked out.
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Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves.
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'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one.
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The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.
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I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.
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The bleak and yet so intimate nature of the mountains has had an enormous impact on the painter. It has deepened his love for his subjects and at the same time purged his vision of everything that is secondary. Nothing inessential appears in the paintings, but how delicately every detail is worked out! The creative thought emerges strongly and nakedly from the finished work. Kirchner is now so taken up with entirely new problems that one cannot apply the old criteria to him if one is to do justice to his work. Those who wish to classify him on the strength of his German paintings will be both disappointed and surprised. Far from destroying him, his serious illness has matured him. Besides his work on visible life, creativity stemming solely from the imagination has opened up its vast potential to him – for this the brief span of his life will probably be far from sufficient.
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
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It just … makes serendipity happen more often.
