Deborah Eisenberg Quotes

We're all walking around trying to deal with a certain amount of shame, to repress it. And we restrict our mental lives to smaller and smaller areas.

Deborah Eisenberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 20, 1945

Topics

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I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy.

Johann Heinrich Lambert

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I've learned to steer away from the wrong kind of woman for me.

Joel Kinnaman

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I wasn't raised in a household where vanity was celebrated. That just wasn't on the top of our list.

Jennifer Garner

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I was always interested in mixing experimentation with pop music, and Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream - we were all doing it at the same time, just very isolated from each other, all in our different cellars, in different worlds, without the Internet - underground in every sense.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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Changing our consumer behaviour is similar to quitting smoking. Unless people are shocked into doing it, either by social disapproval or family disapproval or fear of the medical consequences, they'll just keep on smoking.

John Quelch

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Human Rights Watch wants Rwandans to be able to speak freely about their ethnic hatreds, and to allow political parties connected with the defeated genocide army to campaign freely for power.

Stephen Kinzer

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As everyone knows, I have never been a fan of George Bush's presidency.

Tom Tancredo

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I've never worked with a tail, that I can remember. But there's so much I can't remember.

Ron Perlman

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Some people play steel string beautifully, but I'm not exactly a world-class picker.

Lou Barlow

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Now, I'm ahead of my father. He got other prizes... But he did not get a Nobel Prize.

Lloyd Shapley

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I don't listen to a lot of music; I write more music than I listen to, for sure.

Jason Molina

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I love a Coffee Crisp, and they are nowhere to be found in America.

Jason Priestley

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