Nicholson Baker Quotes
Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
Quotes to Explore
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
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My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.
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And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.
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What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.
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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
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But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.
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La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
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I am often compared to actors who were launched with me. I feel blessed with whatever I have got so far.
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My entire philosophy of teaching is based on the notion that when an artist finds a certain process really effortless, that's probably what he or she should choose to do. So often, students take the opposite tack; they have no use for the skills that come easily to them.
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It's easy to be an educated fool.
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Words cut through my skin, tears roll down my chin
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Did I choose you? Did you choose me? And what difference does it make? All that really matters, friend, is that we chose together.
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It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991.
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For someone to say I am overweight is completely ridiculous.
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Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.
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While you need to be able to stand up for yourself, you also need to recognize that other people have their own agendas. Trauma can make all that hazy and grey.
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Most of us are destined to be unhappy if we can't accept that we will have moments - or a waist size - that don't match our perfect vision of how things should be.
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Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
