Aimee Bender Quotes
For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me.
Aimee Bender
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
Tamae Watanabe
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
Edgar Ramirez
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
Saint Basil
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
Gary Wolf
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
Walter Isaacson
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
Ottmar Hitzfeld
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You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.
Abraham Verghese
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
Eddie Marsan
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I'm just going to try to play as best as I can.
Jared Goff
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The thing was always, as every story you write has a built-in problem, was: Was it too personal. That was the thing I wondered about for a long time. Oddly enough, it's often the personal stuff that people come up to you later and say about it, 'I can't believe you put that in a movie. That happened to me.' And sometimes, the thing that you make up happened to no one.
Cameron Crowe
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me.
Aimee Bender
