Andrew Solomon Quotes
People … don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.
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I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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'Harry Potter' really harnessed the imagination of so many young-adult minds, and it's the same with the 'Divergent' series.
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You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.
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The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.
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Naming something, putting it on record, in a lyric, feels like affirming people. Ideally, that's what politicians should want to do: to put laws or policies in place that speak to people's experiences, to make them feel heard.
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My wife's an architect, so she definitely has a very high-risk artistic profession, and she gets the idea that you're really sensitive, you really care what people think, you have a low threshold for criticism.
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9/11 was a hugely overblown event that only assumed its overarching importance a) because it was done to the United States and b) because of the way the U.S. reacted.
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I am always friendly with people. When media asks me for a picture or interview, I readily do it. However, I wouldn't like them clicking my picture when I am eating or when I visit a temple. I don't want to be big in front of God.
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People … don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.
