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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I have no interest in ever coming out. I’m just trying to make the pictures look good; I’m not into trying to make myself look good. And besides, it’s a pretty safe bet that the reality of me would be a crushing disappointment to a couple of 15-year-old kids out there.
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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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My favorite foods are things that aren't great to eat, like pizza.
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But I have never had the privilege of unhappiness in Happy Valley. California is about the good life. So a bad life there seems so much worse than a bad life anywhere else. Quality is an obsession there—good food, good wine, good movies, music, weather, cars. Those sound like the right things to shoot for, but the never-ending quality quest is a lot of pressure when you’re uncertain and disorganized and, not least, broker than broke. Some afternoons a person just wants to rent Die Hard, close the curtains, and have Cheerios for lunch.
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What [man landing on the moon] is doing up there is indulging his obsession with the impossible. The impossible infuriates and tantalizes him. Show him an impossible job and he will reduce it to a possibility so trite that eventually it bores him.
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It's been an obsession of various genres, disciplines, and aspects and elements of movie-making. It's always been something that I've really aspired to, so doing something new and different, reinventing myself and working with new people is just the passport to the amazing world that is the movies.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
