Andrew Solomon Quotes
I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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I am highly distressed and offended by what Donald Trump has been saying, and I don't think his nomination is good for the country. I think he would be a terrible president and terrible for our country.
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region.
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I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
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As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.
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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
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I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
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I find the business world hard.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.
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One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depends on the cell class and function.
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If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.
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I almost always recommend investors get fully invested, since it's better to put your money to work than to let it simply track the rate of inflation.
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I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.
