Edmund de Waal Quotes
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I'm either enjoying myself or I'm not. And if I'm not enjoying myself, something's gone terribly wrong.
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Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.
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I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.
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The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.
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Democracy is the road to socialism.
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All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.
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When I'm on family road trips, there is always Ranchera playing.
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I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.
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You remember driving your kids to Little League, and they're nervous about making the team, and you're encouraging them. Forty years down the road, we're having the same conversation. Only it's about the Ravens and Steelers, or Stanford and Cal.
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The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.
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Can any sane person say that before something comes on the Net you must screen it? How can there be pre-screening?
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You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.
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We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.
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I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now.
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I think when Kevin Nash put himself on the booking committee and then gave me my first loss, that was beginning of the end.
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If I settle a case out of court, it's because I love the person.
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Whenever I meet Ukridge’s Aunt Julia I have the same curious illusion of having just committed some particularly unsavoury crime and-what is more-of having done it with swollen hands, enlarged feet, and trousers bagging at the knee on a morning when I had omitted to shave.
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Basketball is big stuff in New York. If you're good in it, everybody respects you. Nobody would want to ruin your shooting eye or your shooting arm.
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There is no straight road to finding yourself, to making something.
