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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I have a very clear vision as to what I want at the end of my prep, and then I throw it out and let the creative process take over.
David Boreanaz
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
Larry Gagosian
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If a song is longer than three and a half minutes, it'll need something to keep you entertained.
Jake Bugg
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But at a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized - at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do - it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.
Barack Obama
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I remember sitting in my room and thinking of where it all went wrong and how I ended up losing control of everything, and I realized I hadn't asked myself one question: And then what? That was my most important lesson. I learned to think about the consequences before the action and that saves me, to this day, from a lot of trouble. If you play it down the line, you'll start making better choices.
Karrine Steffans
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For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me.
Aimee Bender
