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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Harry Dresden: Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming up with solutions to ridiculous problems that aren't ever going to happen. Except when one of them does, at which point you feel way too vindicated.
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Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.
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Am I becoming more and more in love with God as a holy God, or with the conception of an amiable Being who says, “Oh well, sin doesn’t matter much”?
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I'm constantly doing new stuff. I'm always excited. I'm a one-man tornado.
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My dream appliance circa 2050 has one big dial on it, and when I twist it to the right, my IQ goes up to 450.
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The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether.
