Alexander Chee Quotes
My singing voice had rescued me from the scene I was in at school - I was an unpopular, bookish kid who had an indeterminate ethnic background. I became fascinated with women sopranos because they had a future that I didn't as a singer.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
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I am very proud of the fact that I get to go out there every day and train in order to represent the Mexican people, and I can only hope they look up to me in a similar fashion.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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For my money, when you're doing an on-camera performance, unless it's for something particularly stylised, you are, by and large, striving for naturalism.
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.
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Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
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You have to take responsibility for how you act. You can't fix everyone.
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I'm often the one in my gang of friends who's worried about how we're going to get from A to B. I'm the one running around saying, 'Is somebody going to do something about it?' Everyone else is bit more chilled.
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All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.
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The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.
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I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.
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My singing voice had rescued me from the scene I was in at school - I was an unpopular, bookish kid who had an indeterminate ethnic background. I became fascinated with women sopranos because they had a future that I didn't as a singer.
