Edith Bowman Quotes
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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I would like to put forward a simple thesis that should no longer be at all controversial: it is now objectively the case that our national interests are increasingly affected not just by what happens between states, but also by how people are treated within states.
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Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
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A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
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Depression has existed as long as mankind itself, and certainly well before psychiatry, antidepressant medication, or the nation of America itself came into being.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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I think I can help others just by my example.
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By 1988, I was living in New York myself.
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Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.
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People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.
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My fans are activists they will fight with you to defend me.
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“Man has to fight for what he wants, any way he can.”
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I had lived all of my youthful dreams, but I couldn't think of many adult ones. I finally realized that we don't have many dreams for adults because, historically, people have always died much younger than they do today.
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We fight like we're a married couple.
