Annalee Newitz Quotes
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Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
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I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
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There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.
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The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
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I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.
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In many ways I'm similar to Barack Obama, who also has a strange name but was raised by a white American mother. His background is far more complicated than his name would suggest. Furthermore, the fact that I was a child during the hostage crisis has caused me to equate being Iranian with being alienated.
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It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.
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I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.
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All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.
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Our hours of adoration will be special hours of reparation for sins, and intercession for the needs of the whole world, exposing the sin-sick and suffering humanity to the healing, sustaining and transforming rays of Jesus, radiating from the Eucharist.
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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
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It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they do not hide under the table, they eat only one sweet at a time, but later on, they make Society pay dearly for it!
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We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.
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If you feel inside you are a woman, be a woman - no one can take that away from you, man. No one can make that feeling go away. If that's what you need to do to be complete, then no one has the right to tell you you can't do that.
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Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality.
