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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A misfit like me getting anywhere in Hollywood as I somehow have, seemed, certainly at the time of 'Spanking The Monkey,' kind of out of reach, or not a very realistic take.
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In order to survive, you have to be alone with yourself to regenerate the spirit.
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Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion.
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Human problems are complex. If something isn't complex it doesn't qualify as problematic. Very simple bad things are not worth troubling ourselves about.
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When you live in a leading lady's body, which I do, you have to constantly prove that you are funny.
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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.
