Brad Listi Quotes
Oftentimes, if a writer really gets her hooks into me, I'll want to read interviews, or listen to an interview, or read a literary biography or a memoir of some kind. And doing so almost always deepens my enjoyment of the author and her work.
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I'm not an architectural composer.
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To be very honest, I never thought I would graduate from high school. I got very lucky to get into an alternative high school, which really saved my butt.
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As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it.
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Agreement has now been reached that negotiations on Turkey's accession to the European Union can and will begin in the very near future.
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Nothing really happened - I was elected in '86 - until 1992, and that's when the Anita Hill debacle happened.
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Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.
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Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
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The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes.
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The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all.
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In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.
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Politics is far more complicated than physics.
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Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
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Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short... was she happy? Not for a moment.
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It’s natural to wonder whether faster sorting is even possible. The question sounds like it’s about productivity. But talk to a computer scientist and it turns out to be closer to metaphysics—akin to thinking about the speed of light, time travel, superconductors, or thermodynamic entropy. What are the universe’s fundamental rules and limits? What is possible? What is allowed? In this way computer scientists are glimpsing God’s blueprints every bit as much as the particle physicists and cosmologists. What is the minimum effort required to make order?
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I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.
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We should not assume that Russia is doomed to live according to its worst traditions. In fact, in Russian history, failed efforts at external aggression, when they fail, usually bring on areas of internal reform.
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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I've learned my lesson over the years about what to say and what not to say in interviews, that's for sure.
