Andrew Solomon Quotes
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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.
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We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.
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Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.
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The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.
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Most people don't know how to tell stories.
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women don't have to hold down office jobs and instead get in a total snit about who won the longest carrot contest or took first prize for summer chutney in the August fete.
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What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
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I got in trouble for saying I would move my family to Europe, but I said it.
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You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.
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Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses, and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move me strongly, and that is one of the sources of my writing.
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Spirituality is a word that is bandied about a lot. So I think it might mean different things to different people. I know that the United States of America is something of a religious country, but not necessarily a spiritual country.
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Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here were every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.
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All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.
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Depression means that you have no point of view.
