Ariel Levy Quotes
I started keeping a diary in third grade and, in solidarity with Anne Frank, gave it a name and made it my confidante. To this day, I feel comforted and relieved of loneliness, no matter how foreign my surroundings, if I have a pad and a pen with which to record my experiences.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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Once we relieve them from sanctions, their economy opens up, and they can sell oil and pistachios and whatever else they sell around the world. That was why Iran needed a deal. Everyone knows they fund terrorism around the world. Having that extra money will add a lot of problems and create a lot more hot spots.
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I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers.
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I like to read the papers. I make my living from football, and I like to know what's going on.
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It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money.
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What I wear is everything - from how I carry my hair to what I'm wearing on my feet. I have to feel comfortable on stage, so I like to wear things that have room. My mood changes a lot, so sometimes I wear 6-inch heels, and other times I'll perform in bare feet.
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The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting.
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My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one, however, say that I have borrowed by philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my Master, the Buddha.
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I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.
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The Bush National Security Strategy is the imperial edict of a superpower out to exploit its present supremacy to make itself permanent Lord Protector of the universe.
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Therefore, since the world has stillMuch good, but much less good than ill,And while the sun and moon endureLuck’s a chance, but trouble’s sureI’d face it as a wise man would,And train for ill and not for good.
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I can cry like Roger. It's just a shame I can't play like him.
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Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.
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Candidates don't want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with a certain middle class demographic, so as a result they leave those others out completely.
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Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition! That's what change looks like.
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You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.
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My parents loved me. My father used to carry me around on my shoulders. I know my father loved me. All families love their children, and we were good boys.
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I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
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My favorite time is late at night. I seem to wake up and want to work after 10pm, in my bubble of night.
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I started keeping a diary in third grade and, in solidarity with Anne Frank, gave it a name and made it my confidante. To this day, I feel comforted and relieved of loneliness, no matter how foreign my surroundings, if I have a pad and a pen with which to record my experiences.
