Louis Aragon Quotes
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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I would have never signed the Patriot Act. I would have never signed the National Defense Authorization Act allowing for arrests and detainment of you and me as U.S. citizens without being charged.
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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He who awaits much can expect little.
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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
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Luckily, I work for a company that promotes on performance.
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I'm not an expert on the arms race.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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The troops aren't red and blue. They're not black and white. They're not male and female. They are Americans! When they put their uniforms on, they are Americans. And that's a fact.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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In Washington, D.C., in 2006, Democrats had long since given up on the war in Iraq in terms of any tangible political support for it. The new factor was the Republicans were beginning to give up as well, and they were truly challenging the strategy and the lack of success.
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I'm a Wisconsin kid, so I like brats and burgers and stuff like that. Cheese curds.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.
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I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader.
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The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great than to perform the ordinary duties of one's daily life simply and naturally.
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I don't fear challenge.
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Don't let your eyes refuse to seeDon't let your ears refuse to hear
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I remember doing one day of work, and I was so good I ended up doing 25 days on that movie. And all of it ended up on the editing room floor. That was my first Hollywood lesson: Just because you filmed a movie doesn't necessarily mean that you're in it.
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There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
