Adora Svitak Quotes
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I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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Writers are storytellers. So are readers.
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Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used to have impoverished neighborhoods nearby, but the poor people got chased out by young singles living in group homes, hipsters, and urban homesteading gay couples.
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Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.
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Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.
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I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to become our family.
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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
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I have no problem with battling for a position. I have no problem trying to beat somebody out. It's a sport, competition, so I'm used to it.
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You should treat a muse like a fairy.
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Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.
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The scary thing is that players have a one-upsmanship about money; they sign a contract and they like it until someone signs a bigger one and now they don't like it. I don't like that. I don't begrudge anyone money, but it disrupts the football team.
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The story of my life publicly has been told through 'Alternative Press.' Former employees, people who have worked there - my friend Ryan Downey, who wrote for 'AP' for a long time - I've been able to have really great articles written about me and talk openly about things in my life.
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We believe that government in Britain should improve the quality of people's lives and improve the quality of our public services in every local community.
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Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually burst - and that brings the whole country down.
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I'm not really a fan of organized religion.
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Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
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The brain is the first broadcasting station ever invented.
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The key to loving how you live is in knowing what it is you truly love.
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Football's the biggest game in the world. America's the greatest sporting nation there is. To play some part in putting those two things together: why wouldn't I be excited about that?
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This world... ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.
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Enthusiasm just creates bubbles; it doesn't keep them from popping.
