Andrew Solomon Quotes

People still ask my husband and me which of us is the mom - which, as one lesbian friend pointed out to me, is like asking which chopstick is the fork. This pressure on us to embody normative traditions can be paralysing.

Andrew Solomon

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These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.

Johan Huizinga

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Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.

John Bolton

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Republicans must stop putting tax increases on the fiscal cliff negotiating table and start demanding that Democrats put forth serious proposals to reduce spending.

John Fleming

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I have a lot of land. I bought it because I had a very strong feeling. I was in my early twenties, and I had grown up in Los Angeles and had seen that city slide off into the sea from the city I knew as a little kid. It lost its identity - suddenly there was cement everywhere and the green was gone and the air was bad - and I wanted out.

Robert Redford

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You can be sure that I will always consider how changes to Social Security will impact people with disabilities when considering the various proposals offered for reform.

Steve Israel

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Hordes of young girls never copied my hairdos or the way I talk or the way I dress. I have, therefore, never had to go through the stress of perpetuating an image that's often the equivalent of one particular song that forever freezes a precise moment of one's youth.

Simone Signoret

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Being eternally known as Bond has no downside.

Roger Moore

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Sometimes I believe that the reason I have been able to do such exemplary work on the screen is because this is the only place I can be free, neither censured nor judged.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

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The space genre is timeless.

Dirk Benedict

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I'd rather they call me a national treasure than a national waste of time. And yes, it does feel good, but I've had to earn it.

Boy George

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I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space to live or create, and they were bucking all kinds of spoken and unspoken rules.

Anne Roiphe

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I honestly always really try to get people to share their feelings. I always say to everyone that communication is key.

Anne-Marie

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