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Alissa Quart Quotes

The Southern California arena rock, hair metal, laidback hippie garden culture - for many growing up in the '70s and '80s, none of it made us who we were like Lou Reed did.

Alissa Quart

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1972

Topics

Culture Growing Up Hair Garden Rock

I really think the disease aspect gets lost when you're talking about alcoholism and addiction; it's not like you're battling leukemia or a heart problem; it is that.

Jim Irsay

Heart Think Problem Talking You

Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.

John Flavel

Sin Others Against Easier Than Sins

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

John Keats

Nature Fire Human Nature Finding New

I actually got thrown into my Bar Mitzvah because my teacher, my Cantor, did not tell me that they would all say 'amen' at the end of each, for want of a better word, paragraph. And that threw me completely. I almost went into an Ella Fitzgerald sort of scat.

Jeffrey Tambor

Teacher Me End Better Say Want

Ultimately, the success of America's market economy depends on trust. This includes trust between buyers and sellers, between lenders and borrowers, and between investors and the companies in which they invest.

Amy Klobuchar

Success Trust America Economy Market

I constantly want to know - what is a table, or what is a cat?

Simon McBurney

Table Know Want Cat Constantly

It is not nothing to ask someone holding an election certificate in the United States Senate to provide his or her vote.

Mike Lee

Someone Election Vote Nothing Ask

What separates developing countries from developed countries is as much a gap in knowledge as a gap in resources.

Joseph Stiglitz

Knowledge Resources Gap Much

I make money not so much from acting but my travelogue.

Shenaz Treasury

Money Acting Make Much

America's popular heroes have seldom been its great thinkers, and even less its scientists. The success of TV's 'Big Bang Theory,' which seems to give the lie to this claim, is more the exception that proves the rule.

Seth Shostak

Success Great Lie America Heroes

One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a play. I mean, it was a disaster, and it was the night of the long knives as far as the critics were concerned.

Tim Curry

Best New York Me Night Long Play

To me, Turing is as much of a philosopher as he is a mathematician because his ideas deal with what it means to think.

Morten Tyldum

Me Ideas Think Because Deal Means