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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If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.
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Photography can be a powerful instrument for change, and photojournalists can tell stories that make a difference.
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People still take it really personally. They come up to me at breakfast places like, 'When are you growing your hair back?'
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This book full of linoleum prints will be an alphabet of pictorial elements without text, which shall aim at establishing a larger scale of painting, a closer contact between the artist and the wall, and a new spirit of art accompanying architecture.
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For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the difference between the two might lead us to think, but that it has the power and privilege of rising from that level to a height utterly far from mediocrity: in other words that its greatness is that it can be so great.
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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.
