Andrew Solomon Quotes
I grew up in a very rationalist household. My father, in particular, came from that mid-century tradition of thinking science will ultimately explain everything.Andrew Solomon
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
Sam Worthington -
Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
Nancy Friday -
Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
Florence Ellinwood Allen -
Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
Sally Quinn -
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
Walter Gropius -
The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
Oriana Fallaci
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I kind of crave loneliness.
Sam Heughan -
To be honest with you, I've been dying to do a nice indie feature - just something about a regular guy with a big quirk or a big emotional problem. Just something that's a straightforward, classic indie film. It sounds weird, but it's been easier for me to get cast in big tentpole films than the indie community. I'd love to do that.
Falk Hentschel -
It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
Owen Wilson -
My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
Barry Commoner -
We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
Yitzhak Rabin -
I was very rebellious.
Katey Sagal
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
Bebe Rexha -
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
Ted Deutch -
Isolation is a dream killer.
Barbara Sher -
I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
Samuel Barnett -
I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
Walter Mosley
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I want to cure many diseases and save children's lives.
Martin Shkreli -
I want to share with you my belief in your power to change this country and this world.
Jack Layton -
Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that had a strange tradition. Everyone there loved recounting failure stories, and after an evening of smacking one another, we'd sit and have a beer while the students swapped tales of martial arts disaster.
Martha Beck -
We grew up even a lot from last week. Even with all the dropped balls and fumbled, we never stopped believing in ourselves.
Anthony Lewis -
A revival of 'Of Mice and Men' would have seemed out of place in years of Reaganomics, Donald Trump and Michael Milken, a time when Rambo supplied millions of filmgoers with a fantasy that masked what was really going on in their lives.
Jay Parini -
I grew up in a very rationalist household. My father, in particular, came from that mid-century tradition of thinking science will ultimately explain everything.
Andrew Solomon