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Susan Sontag Quotes

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: January 16, 1933 - December 28, 2004

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Taste Juxtaposition Quotations

There is a profiteer when it comes to oil. 36 to 63 cents per gallon is swept off the top. And who profits from that? The government profits from it. And what does the government do with much of that money? It puts it into so-called 'alternative energy,' with so-called phony 'green jobs' that we're yet to see being produced.

Money Government Green Energy Oil

Acting tough is all about developing an attitude and a persona that says, 'Look at how great I am.' But often, that tough exterior is meant to hide self-doubt. Mentally strong people invest more energy into working on their weaknesses rather than trying to cover them up.

Attitude Great I Am People Energy

Many black people I know are proud of the Irish part of their heritage - an Irish grandparent, say - but they recognise that many people believe in a form of racial purity. And it is from that belief that prejudice starts.

People Believe Proud Black Heritage

Comfort is key for me. I'm a bigger guy, so whatever fits is nice, too.

Me Key Comfort Nice Whatever Bigger

I just want to do a movie musical and then if I could do some recording stuff, that would be amazing! I would die a happy woman! I really would. It doesn't take much!

Woman Happy Amazing Die Want Take

My first on-screen kiss was lame: Nickelodeon. But my first real-life kiss was super cute and nice, but still very awkward. It was with this hot skateboarder with dreadlocks. He was my little Rasta man.

Christian Serratos

Cute Man Kiss Nice Hot First

In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written about in Entertainment Weekly, and it was kind of cool because my mom asked me if Entertainment Weekly was a magazine or a newspaper.

Chuck Klosterman

Job Me Cool Mom Book You

But I'm always trying to plan ahead too and in doing so, and in working on this album, I've met a lot people that I hope to be involved with, on their records and in their situations.

Hope People Doing Plan Trying Ahead

People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job.

Success Job People Colleagues Trying

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.

Men Results Way Practical Interested

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

Honesty Best Honesty Is Always Us

I was a bartender in New York and I overheard this girl saying she made $3000 doing a commercial. A kid at work told me, 'Hey, I know this director and he'd really like you!'. So I walked into this guy's office and was like 'I was thinking maybe I could make $3000' and he hired me for commercials, short films, like 15 jobs in a row.

Pauley Perrette

Work Girl New York Me Saying Short

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