Eileen Pollack Quotes
Writers find common ground not through the homelands they once inhabited but the thematic questions with which they grapple.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov -
America faces a new race that has awakened.
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I think having children is the most amazing thing.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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You cannot have adoration without being criticized.
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Wind and other clean, renewable energy will help end our reliance on fossil fuels and combat the severe threat that climate change poses to humans and wildlife alike.
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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.
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What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike!
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I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.
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So no, I don't think we've lost our edge at all.
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I can scarcely stand to have a manicure. I have to have them because you don't want to look like a disgusting human being - it's self-care and it has to happen, but I get very restless.
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One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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I really wish that I was, like, strong enough to not go online.
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The threat of nuclear terrorism is growing faster than our ability to prevent an attack on our homeland.
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It never ceases to surprise me, the people I get to work with. I'm in a French film with Sandrine Bonnaire? I adore Sandrine Bonnaire. I'm doing a picture for Robert Redford? The Sundance Kid? I have to pinch myself sometimes.
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What a good novelist does with a throwaway that serves no fictional purpose is throw it away.
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Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.
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Writers find common ground not through the homelands they once inhabited but the thematic questions with which they grapple.
