Andrew Vachss Quotes
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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The historian is a prophet looking backward.
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For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.
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I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.
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I just want get to as high as I can go. I think that's the safest and most politically correct thing I can say. I'm not trying to take anyone's spot. I want to create my own lane and shoot to the sky.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I'd rather be home alone, painting.
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Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
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Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.
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The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.
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Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.
