Elaine Scarry Quotes
The generation is unceasing. Beauty, as both Plato’s Symposium and everyday life confirm, prompts the begetting of children: when the eye sees someone beautiful, the whole body wants to reproduce the person.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.
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Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like, 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.'
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I love girl power.
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
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There are so many people that say they are actors and they don't spend for 5 minutes a day working on their craft. You need to train and need to take classes to keep your tools sharp. I'm always in class, whether it's theater or drama workshops.
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
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The truth is we just have a normal life, because we do have a church where our children are growing up pastor's children. And we just try to keep it really normal.
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I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.
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What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.
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I had to do something for the country.
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I feel like actors, having spent a lot of time on movie sets, tend to make decent directors, because they've been there, they know what they're doing, they've seen it done right, they've seen it done wrong, and they feel comfortable. There's not a lot of chin-scratching and wondering what your next move is.
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I don't get dressed up every day. I'm very busy. I get really annoyed when people talk about me as a 'fashionista.' I get dressed up when I have to go out. Most of the time, I'm running around in jeans.
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You tell it that it's indicative by appending $!. That's why we made $! such a short variable name, after all.
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Beyonce's the kind of artist where you're not gonna see it till it's right.
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I love working at Marvel, but it was definitely DC that got me hooked as a reader.
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The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.
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Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.
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The generation is unceasing. Beauty, as both Plato’s Symposium and everyday life confirm, prompts the begetting of children: when the eye sees someone beautiful, the whole body wants to reproduce the person.
