Andre Dubus III Quotes
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
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I was born in Iran, which has a predominantly Muslim population, and I have relatives who are devout Muslims, so I know what it means to be judged based on your appearance and what you're wearing. But your ethnicity and your clothing do not define who you are.
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I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
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Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China - the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.
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Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.
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Nowadays, the truth is, I think a lot of the newer generation of action stars usually are pretty self-deprecating and cool. I mean, Dwayne Johnson is a great example.
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It's part of the fun of it to work with strong personalities.
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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
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New mobile-payment-based models are, in some ways, more secure. Because in a model like Circle's, for example, we never transmit your personal information or your financial credentials to the people you're paying.
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Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
