William Deresiewicz Quotes
But it is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to be true, and it is our job to deal with it.
William Deresiewicz
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Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
Valerie Bertinelli
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What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.
Taylor Swift
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Neural implants could accomplish things no external interface could: Virtual and augmented reality with all five senses; augmentation of human memory, attention, and learning speed; even multi-sense telepathy - sharing what we see, hear, touch, and even perhaps what we think and feel with others.
Ramez Naam
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Every generation looks at literature through the lens of their own experience, but with the Bible, everyone gets apprehensive and thinks it'll be too stuffy.
Walter Kirn
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Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat.
Jack Levine
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Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.
Taylor Hackford
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I was born with the wrong sign
In the wrong house
With the wrong ascendancy
I took the wrong road
That led to
The wrong tendencies
I was in the wrong place
At the wrong time
For the wrong reason
And the wrong rhyme
On the wrong day
Of the wrong week
Used the wrong method
With the wrong technique
Wrong
Wrong.
Martin Gore
Depeche Mode
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My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.
Ed Asner
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I really miss the rehearsal process of theater.
Kurtwood Smith
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Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.
Edmund White
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In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.
Johann Arndt
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But it is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to be true, and it is our job to deal with it.
William Deresiewicz