Annie Dillard Quotes
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
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Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
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Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.
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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
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I never set out to do this - getting to No. 1 in the 'New York Times' bestseller list wasn't even a pipedream.
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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The book that first made me want to be a writer is Flannery O'Connor's short story collection 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find.'
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When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.
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I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog.
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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
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I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.
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It's interesting, because as a musician, I don't feel like I need to be on the top of the pop charts.
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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
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I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.
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And we did so based on the belief that while these transitions will be hard and take time, societies based upon democracy and openness and the dignity of the individual will ultimately be more stable, more prosperous, and more peaceful.
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Well, I'm not talkin' bout locking down forever, baby.That would be too demanding.I'm just talkin' bout two lonely peopleWho might reach a little understanding.I'm not talkin' bout knocking out heavenwith whether we're wrong or we're right.I'm not talkin' bout hooking up and hanging out,I'm just talkin' bout tonight.
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People ask me how I manage without a man in the same tone they might ask someone how they're doing with just one lung, but it's not like that at all.
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I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred. In today's mass-merchandising world, that's largely gone; Amazon is trying to use computer technology to re-establish it.
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Brands who come to China, often they just care about price - so they actually drive the suppliers to cut corners on environmental standards to win a contract.
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I told my father to stop smoking around the age of two or three years old and he stopped smoking. So the relationship between the kid and the parent is very powerful, and if you give the kid the right information, it can be very useful to the family.
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The surest sign of age is loneliness.
