Stacy Schiff Quotes

Reality does not easily give up meaning; it's the biographer's job to clobber it into submission. You're meant not only to tame it but to extract substance, to identify cause and axiomatic effect. You subsist on the tactical omissions, the hollow words, the oddly unconnected dots.

Stacy Schiff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 26, 1961

Topics

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Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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I'm enjoying simplifying things.

Jennifer Aniston

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In the best atheist sense of the word, I feel blessed.

Robert J. Sawyer

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Modern free-traders... embrace their ideal with a passion that makes Robespierre seem prudent. They embrace unbridled free trade, even as it helps China become a superpower.

Robert Lighthizer

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We feel an enormous sense of gratitude towards the American people.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

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Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.

John Wooden

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I haven't lost an election since middle school.

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

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I've done a fair amount of commercials. I did a bunch of Champion spark plug ads and Levi's and Molson Beer. You wouldn't know it. But some of it's damn good.

Ry Cooder

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I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

Chris Evans

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It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words.

Claire Denis

WordsSometimesNeedLike

I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.

Chuck Palahniuk

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For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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