Alexander Chee Quotes
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I don't understand why young entrepreneurs feel this pressure to take venture capital or go public. Don't get me wrong: Public companies are A-OK with me. I just think there is another way. Staying private is a lot more sane.
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For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.
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I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.
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I did musical theatre for about four years. One time, I did six shows in one year whilst juggling school.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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Most women I know love the idea of fashion, but the practicalities that go with it are just distressing.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.
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I am mentally strong.
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Ladies, I'll let you in on a lil secret: guys don't notice your nails.
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It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into slivers, and that more and more people get their news from ever narrower outlets.
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Jews must be able to live with enemies and defend themselves from them. The hatred for Israel has not disappeared.
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I try to come at fitness and nutrition from a perspective of gentleness and what will make me feel good afterwards. I try to stay out of the mindset of needing to fix myself. I do whatever seems fun to me.
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Well I forgot how different it was because I've been here for about four or five years. It's a big load off my shoulders now. Now that I'm there, I'm like, man, I can breathe a little bit, you know?
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I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.
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The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King.
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I have, at times, been absorbed in my work to the point of complete self-oblivion. Once I worked for thirty-six hours without a break - to complete exhaustion; and while I was in the middle of it I didn't even notice.
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I didn't move to Nashville with any inkling or dreams of getting a record deal. I didn't have those stars in my eyes. I just wanted to take a break, relax, and figure out songwriting.
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It would be very, very dangerous for a wire walker to experience fear while he is balancing on the wire. Fear has its place on earth, before and maybe after a high-wire walk, but not during for me.
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Andrea Schulz became my editor in 2009.
