Edward Glaeser Quotes
Twentieth-century urban America didn’t belong to the skyscraper; it belonged to the car.
Quotes to Explore
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.
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I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.
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My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!
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The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.
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I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.
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When conflicted between two choices, take neither.
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History tends to take the simplest possible view. As soon as you start to scratch the surface of any historical event, it starts to become more and more complicated, which is not the stuff of Hollywood films. Complications tend to break down the budget.
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I can't be a creative person if I'm a celebrity.
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Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.
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The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug.
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You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.
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Twentieth-century urban America didn’t belong to the skyscraper; it belonged to the car.
