Andrew Solomon Quotes
I hate the comparative idea that you have to love your spouse more than you love your parents.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
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The fact that we walked away from the Middle East, as distasteful as it was for us to stay involved and prevent wars, based on our long involvement there, we have helped to create and provide a foundation. Obviously for ISIS and also for the absolute barbarianism and human catastrophe that Assad impacted on his people.
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The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.
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They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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In the late '70s, I was falling into the middle lane. I was way too country to be rock, and way too rock to be a country act.
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Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.
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The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.
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I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.
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My parents made the decision never to focus on my looks, and I had no sense of myself as beautiful.
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In the spring and summer of 1989, a serious political disturbance took place in China.
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The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
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The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.
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Words created divergencies between beings, because their precise meanings put an opinion around the idea. Music only retains the highest and purest substance of the idea, since it has the privilege of expressing all, whilst excluding nothing.
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I hate the comparative idea that you have to love your spouse more than you love your parents.
