Andrew Solomon Quotes
Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence on a noxious private planet they can never leave, and where they can receive no visitors.
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If you are a girl dressing up in the morning thinking about the whole world having a point of view on what you are wearing, it takes the pleasure out of getting dressed.
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I'm fighting hard to make the world a better place, and you can, too. Get involved with your community, be a leader, set an example, be passionate, be your best.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
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It's got to be harder in real life to win a World Cup. But depending on if you play World Class level on FIFA, it's going to be difficult to win in the video game, too.
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We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.
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We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.
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This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.
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I have a saying: I try to make the world smaller by making the party bigger.
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It's so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans. That doesn't happen that easily. It just doesn't. And so I don't act up in public and I don't do anything weird - because my sisters are watching me, not because the world is watching me.
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This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive.
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Berlin would be a great place to have no cell phone, I think. Especially if you were able to live in a central location.
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In West Virginia, the most vulnerable people we have are people who get up every morning and go to work.
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence on a noxious private planet they can never leave, and where they can receive no visitors.
