Andrew Solomon Quotes

Every stage of life longs for others. When one is young and eager, one aspires to maturity, and everyone older would like nothing better than to be young.

Andrew Solomon

Recitation: by Male by Female

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It'd be nice if Asian actors could be perceived as profitable, which is the bottom line. We're perceived as not mattering much fiscally.

John Cho

Be NiceNiceLineAsianBottomMuch

In a private room he showed me the first specimens of gold, that is he was not certain if it was gold or not, but he thought it might be; immediately I made the proof and found that it was gold.

John Sutter

MeGoldThoughtFirstRoomProof

When Steven Spielberg comes calling, it behooves you to seriously consider it.

Stephen Lang

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I like Mitt Romney as a person. I think he's a dignified person. But I have no common ground on economics. He doesn't worry about the Federal Reserve. He doesn't worry about foreign policy. He doesn't talk about civil liberties, so I would have a hard time to expect him to ever invite me to campaign with him.

Ron Paul

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My parents were born in 1912; they graduated from college into the Depression. They kept notebooks of every nickel they spent, and these habits of frugality from having grown up so poor never left them.

Roz Chast

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Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest.

Mitt Romney

TimeWorldCreateBuildLeadSure

The suburbs have this veneer of happiness, you know? This veneer of the ideal life. From afar, it's all together - white picket fence, nice house - but you peel away one little layer, and it all comes crumbling down.

Jason Jones

LifeHappinessTogetherFenceYou

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.

Jean Cocteau

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On a film, you start to get closer and closer with the people you're working with, and it becomes like this circus act or this travelling family.

Johnny Depp

FamilyPeopleStartYouCircusAct

Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching than they do conducting experiments or writing books.

Derek Bok

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I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.

Donna Brazile

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It just happens I write fast and always have done.

Boris Johnson

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