Siri Hustvedt Quotes

I garden. It's very relaxing to me.

Siri Hustvedt

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I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.

Jesse Eisenberg

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Every American soldier wants as much public support as he can possibly have. That's the soldiers on duty in Iraq, and that's me, as well. We fight better knowing that our people back home support us, back us, and understand what we're doing. It's hugely important.

John Abizaid

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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

John Dalberg-Acton

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We want people to know they shouldn't feel like social pariahs just because they want to dress differently or listen to rock n' roll.

Andy Biersack

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A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Max Planck

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The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

Maya Angelou

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Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses.

John Warner

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It's great finding a comic book character that doesn't care about following traditional comic book rules by breaking the fourth wall and being explicit about everything. This gives Deadpool the arrogance which you just have to love.

Stefan Kapicic

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The person is a resume, not what's on a piece of paper. Whoever gives advice about resumes in college should be dismissed. Titles don't matter. GPAs don't matter, nor does what school you go to.

Mickey Drexler

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It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film - online, and how in the online world, you're instantly global.

Mike Mills

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Everybody has the idea of Santa in their head and in their heart.

Mick Foley

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My parents were both lawyers and were very active in social causes when I was young.

Chris Connelly

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