Alexander Chee Quotes
My mother's family has been in Maine for over 300 years on the same farm. They have a King George III deed.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
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I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.
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'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
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It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
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Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.
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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
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Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.
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I don't know, I like the word sassy.
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Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing, Thanks for mercies past received.
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Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.
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It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.
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I'm not sure if the passage of time affects our core identities so much as reveals them to us.
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My mother's family has been in Maine for over 300 years on the same farm. They have a King George III deed.
