Siri Hustvedt Quotes

I have found that all of my memories seem to need a place and that a good part of what we think of as explicit memory has to do with location.

Siri Hustvedt

Recitation: by Male by Female

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GoodMemoriesMemoryThinkPlace

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

John Dewey

ComplexAbstractionWholeObject

Deciding on when to kick is crucial and depends on how the race is unfolding.

Michael East

RaceKickHowDependsUnfolding

I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.

Sidney Altman

SonImmigrantsBornPoorMontreal

I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.

Robyn Davidson

MyselfTravelSeeJustWriter

The travel book is a convenient metaphor for life, with its optimistic beginning or departure, its determined striving, and its reflective conclusion. Journeys change travellers just as a good travel book can change readers.

Rory MacLean

LifeChangeGoodBeginningTravel

Gay marriage - it's not about two people being gay: it's about two people who love each other and who have decided to commit to each other for the exact same reasons any other couple would get married.

Luke Macfarlane

LoveMarriagePeopleGayTwo People

I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to.

Lucy Hale

MomBornCountryListenNashville

Dweebs are the new chic.

Debby Ryan

NewChic

Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving.

Brandon Boyd

MusicCreativePaintingRandomBliss

We urge the Department of Justice to carefully investigate and aggressively prosecute all senior bank officials who participated in manipulating the London interbank offered rate throughout the financial crisis.

Peter Welch

JusticeFinancialCrisisLondonBank

People have to liberate themselves, because liberation is not a single act. It's a question of eternal vigilance. Otherwise, you'll just become enslaved by someone else.

Norman Finkelstein

PeopleSomeoneYouBecomeQuestion

And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.

Leonard Cohen

GreatVoiceGuitarPlayEitherMuch

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