Alexander Chee Quotes
Liz Benedict, a teacher of mine at Iowa, is the person who introduced me to James Salter's work.
Quotes to Explore
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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In the end, I think the majority of Romanian society will understand that if we respect environmental protection standards, if we have benefits in taxes, royalties, jobs, we should do what all the modern countries in Europe and beyond are doing to take advantage of their natural resources.
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I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
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I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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I've never gotten up in front of a Muslim congregation and played the role of a religious leader, and I decline those invitations because that's not what I am.
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You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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I'm so busy and there's so much going on, that the gym or a workout can't be a last minute thought, like, 'I have nothing to do today I'm going to go to the gym.' Now it's, 'When am I going to find time to work out tomorrow?'
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The party where humorless thought police work to enforce a rigid ideological discipline isn't made up of Democrats. It comprises Republicans.
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Liz Benedict, a teacher of mine at Iowa, is the person who introduced me to James Salter's work.
