Anais Nin Quotes
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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I've always been happy with my body.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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Using MO to link crimes can be problematic.
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The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.
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Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to fill is obviously important, too. But there is more to life, and there ought to be much more to childhood, than readiness for economic functions.
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Do not be misled by a person's prayers and fasting. [Instead] look [at their] sincerity and wisdom.
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Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
