Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Quotes
I'm fond of observing how obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital.
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I think you're certainly going to see much closer racing. But, no, these are very good teams in the IRL. I just can't stress how competitive they all are and how close it's going to be.
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We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.
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Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people.
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I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.
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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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I definitely love women. They are more attractive to the naked eye.
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Wrap up the 20th century; Fred Astaire is gone.
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Be good, and you will be lonesome, be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it, that's what living is to me.
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I'm only a poor corrupt official.
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I don't really go to clubs so I don't know what sounds are made there.
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I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.
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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.
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Trade your expectations for appreciation and the world changes instantly.
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I don't think anybody at the major studios is rushing to offer me a romantic lead.
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Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.
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It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations; to a Frenchman sex provides the most economical way to have fun. The French are a logical race.
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Most great instigators of social change have intimate personal knowledge of trauma. Oprah Winfrey comes to mind, as do Maya Angelou, Nelson Mandela, and Elie Wiesel. Read the life history of any visionary, and you will find insights and passions that came from having dealt with devastation.
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I'm fond of observing how obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital.
