Andrew Vachss Quotes
He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.
Quotes to Explore
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.
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Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.
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Waking up with a bad head in the morning is difficult sometimes.
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But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.
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I think so much of writing is an instinct, or a feel for a scene, or a feel for a character. You have to put into words the word 'tone,' which I think is thrown around a lot and can mean a hundred different things, but communicating that to other people is definitely a challenge.
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The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.
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Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.
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He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.
