Andrew Solomon Quotes

My father's an opera nut, and my stepmother used to work at the Metropolitan Opera, so I had a lot of opera immersion. I like the grandness and pretention of it.

Andrew Solomon

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I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.

Joan Severance

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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I get very intense: I get to the show five hours early. If we're on at 8 P.M., I'm there at 3 in the afternoon.

Meat Loaf

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When I first started doing these roasts in the mid '90s, they were a lost art, like jousting or calligraphy. But I feel like roasts help tame the room and let off steam... It's like it's all being handled by professionals.

Jeff Ross

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Communities don't have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights.

Michael Badnarik

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Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.

Amy Alcott

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When we're not doing any Pearl Jam stuff, that's when I'll probably think of doing something else, whether that be scoring - hopefully more opportunities will come - or doing a solo thing.

Mike McCready

OpportunitiesThinkDoingWillMore

I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things.

Jonathan Shapiro

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I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

Johnny Depp

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Really, what's not to love in John McCain, satire-wise? As if he had not already been good enough to us, then came his nomination of Sarah Palin. Here, truly, was a gift from the gods of satire.

Christopher Buckley

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Thankfully, gratefully, cancer did not get the best of me.

Cobie Smulders

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There are caste systems in American cities: Many are marginalized to the edges of urban centers due to real estate costs; price tags seem to lurk around human encounters; there's a cult of overwork in the middle class; workers at your local manicurist, your local fast casual restaurant, are exploited.

Alissa Quart

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