Alberto Manguel Quotes
In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.
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The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.
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I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.
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I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've been trying to scrub any traces of Valley Girl from my speech since I moved to New York, but it's, like, totally way harder than anyone thinks, you know?
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Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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The life of the hereafter is the outcome of all this world.
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Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family?
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I think a lot more people are starting to understand the power of YouTube.
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My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.
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Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.
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'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.
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Don't be discouraged by writer's block. Writer's block just means you need to listen to other music.
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Though in application it works splendidly, we do not even understand the physical meaning of quantum mechanics, much less how it might be united with general relativity.
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Certainly another Brad Sherman might be annoying, but it isn't something society doesn't know how to deal with. But a new level of human being is something else.
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A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
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The founding fathers, in their wisdom, devised a method by which our republic can take one hundred of its most prominent numbskulls and keep them out of the private sector where they might do actual harm.
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In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.
