Eda LeShan Quotes
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.
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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
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Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
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I just wanna hear my own voice.
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I am more interested in fair and balanced trade between nations than I am in free trade that encumbers us in a multinational pact that is refereed by the WTO.
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We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.
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'The solution lies in secrecy,' said Medra. 'But so does the problem.'
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I mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects, it is a grassroots movement.
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I definitely don't ever want to burn out at my job.
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On a film set, everything's done for you. You get to a stage where you can't even remember the last time you made yourself a sandwich. The crazy thing is that, as actors, we're trying to portray the human condition, but we're often not living in reality.
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I've never spent a whole year in one place without leaving.
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I'm just sorry I couldn't come home with a second Olympic gold medal.
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Love the giver more than the gift.
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You're going to figure it out, as you go. I think that's how people feel about having children, as well. You're not going to learn how to do it until you do it.
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While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.
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Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat.
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We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.
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The world in which we live today-reflecting in so many way the opposite of our sweetness and love-reminds us how desperately important it is to break the spell that's been cast on the human race and retrieve our shining self.
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China's stock market is inextricably tied to politics.
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All important progress made by the human race has its roots in daydreaming.
