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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What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.
Ian Mcewan
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I am livid with rage, sitting here in chains through this mad war which kills any meaning of life... My nerves are shattered and my mind darkened.
Walter Gropius
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Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We'd watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn't ask for a better thing.
James William Ercolan
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He only threw five balls and didn't have nearly the number of snaps in preparation coming into the game.
Bob Stoops
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The speed with which modern society has adapted to accommodate the world's vast spectrum of gender and sexual identities may be the most important cultural metamorphosis of our time.
Jenna Wortham
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For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me.
Aimee Bender
