Charles de Montesquieu Quotes
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I know conventional wisdom has always been to go to Europe, and I did that early on, and I tried it, but I realised pretty quickly if I wasn't playing, nothing else mattered - I wasn't going to be happy.
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Most people are really dedicated to doing good things.
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Some people need sequins, others don't.
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I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.
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I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
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People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger about a lack of jobs and concerns for the next generation.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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With fandom, people are sensitive, and sometimes defensive, about their experiences.
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I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
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I can live without bread, but I can't live without freedom.
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I am making myself less frequent in the Lady World than I have been. I must keep up my dignity, or rather, I must attend more to politics and less to love.
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I am a huge zombie fan. I have probably seen the George Romero movies 100 times each, without exaggeration.
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I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.
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New York and Connecticut belong to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to cut carbon emissions, and New York City has been a leader in energy efficiency.
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I don't look at Instagram. I don't have much to do with social media.
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Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.
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When the basic status of a theory is clear, and all that needs to be cleared are details, you can collaborate. But if the main structure of a hypothesis isn't established, and you want to change the paradigm - like it was the case in the 1960s - it's better to work alone.
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Having spent intimate time with him, meeting in a small group with him, it kind of scares me that he would be in a classroom with girls.
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Illness transforms the things you most fear into the things you crave and would hold onto if you could.
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I guess the biggest difference between me and many of today's female graduate students is that a lot of them were raised by mothers with careers, and they got college degrees studying with female professors. Both of those factors make the enterprise of educating yourself for a serious profession seem feasible.
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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
