Andrew Vachss Quotes

All children are born pure egoists. They perceive their needs to the exclusion of all others. Only through socialization do they learn that some forms of gratification must be deferred and others denied.

Andrew Vachss

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 19, 1942

Topics

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I'm not going to leave one of the best shows to do another TV show.

Jimmy Smits

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I think it's real important to show style now. The majority of style right now is to act like you don't have style at all, so most companies are getting rich off clothes that look torn, clothes that look worn.

Andre Benjamin

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I was an artist - I fancied myself an artist - I sold paintings at bars to pay my rent.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

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Land really is the best art.

Andy Warhol

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We don't own the team; we just rent it. The fans own it, and a lot of times, they haven't been happy with the renter.

Rocky Wirtz

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I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.

Mila Kunis

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The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season.

Martin Van Buren

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It was such a whirlwind for us for about three to four years there that, every time we turned around, we were pulled in 90 different directions, and I look back on that now, and they're such wonderful memories, but you kinda wish that you would've taken the time to savor them a little bit more.

Jay DeMarcus

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Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.

Diana Wynne Jones

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I feel, since 2001, this huge need for Americans to have superheroes on the screen. This idea that a super-being will protect you. That this being can go above the law but, at the end of the day, would be a good force and defeat the evil. This idea that this half-god exists. This need in the subconscious of America to find these gods.

Denis Villeneuve

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It would be a mistake to view Camacho as the beacon of democracy in Mexico. He has played by the PRI's rules for more than 15 years. As mayor of Mexico City, he was recognized as a political broker, not as an apostle of substantive political reform.

Denise Dresser

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You can learn a little bit from everybody, so you should be able to work a bit with everybody.

Brad Wenstrup

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