Andrew Solomon Quotes
The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether.
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We have lost the idea that something can be secret because it is valuable, not because it's shameful. If you share everything with everybody, what have you got for yourself? I tweet and I blog, but I save a lot for myself. Not because I am ashamed.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.
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The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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Being a showrunner meant writing and producing a television show, period, but with 'Lost,' suddenly it became part of the job to promote and be the face of the brand. In a weird way, the story was as much the star as any of the actors, so people wanted to hear from us.
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.
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When you go on an audition it's very frightening.
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I took a Ferrari under the 405 freeway. We took rent-a-cars through the desert. That was fun.
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A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.
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I was never someone that was attached to any party. You know, I've always been an independent person. I'd like to remain like that.
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We come from geek culture, we come from the free software movement, we have a lot of technologists involved. If we had done the same sort of comparison on poets or artists, I think that we would not have fared nearly as well.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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You can cut your hair how you want, but I think you should get to where you wear it normal for the future.
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Our goal as a parent is to give life to our children's learning--to instruct, to teach, to help them develop self-discipline--an ordering of the self from the inside, not imposition from the outside. Any technique that does not give life to a child's learning and leave a child's dignity intact cannot be called discipline--it is punishment, no matter what language it is clothed in.
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I have always been very family-oriented. I came from a dysfunctional, broken family growing up, and it's probably instilled in me the need and the want to have a strong family and a great foundation. So I think that is something that I naturally gravitate toward.
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The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether.
