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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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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Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
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There are some who call Yiddish a dead language, but so was Hebrew called for two thousand years. It has been revived in our time in a most remarkable, almost miraculous way. Aramaic was certainly a dead language for centuries but then it brought to light the Zohar, a work of mysticism of sublime value.
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There's a method to the madness in filmmaking, where everything's very specifically laid out, the shots and what they need - but there also can be a freedom to allowing the actors to find genuine moments.
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Online, you show how brilliant you are by manipulating the language of the Internet.
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The absurd and legendary devil is the enigma of the Church.
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Defaulting on the nation's debt would be cataclysmic. The U.S. Treasury's Aaa rating is the one constant in the world's financial system. When times are bad anywhere on the planet, global investors flock to Treasury bonds because they know they will get their money back.
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Andrea Schulz became my editor in 2009.
