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Susan Orlean Quotes

I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice,' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged; too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong, and that you are wrong if you choose any of them.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 31, 1955

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Truth Me Truth Is Wish You Choose

The world's longest-serving dictator has just stepped down and handed over power. The national project of Cuba, which was Fidel's vision, is now finished. It's something - a small something, but still something.

Power Vision World Small Down Cuba

A lack of reform - particularly in international tax - has hurt our ability to compete in a global economy by keeping U.S. corporate cash overseas and reducing domestic investment, slowing economic growth.

Growth Hurt Tax Investment Economy

I have no problem with commitment - you can't have a real relationship without it. I can flip on a switch in my brain, and even if the next Brad Pitt is standing next to me, I won't look at him. But I can also turn that switch off, and then I collect attractive boys.

Relationship Commitment Me Brain You

I always like to say that our brand or our philosophy has always been kind of this marriage between the 'food as indulgence,' and it's also been about 'food as health,' that food is vitality.

Marriage Health Food Brand Say Kind

Batman and Superman are probably my favorite superheroes - apart from Constantine.

Superman Favorite Batman Apart

I have moments all the time when I play.

Time Moments Play

National security looks different from the Oval Office than it does from a hotel room in Iowa.

Hotel Security Looks Office Room

The only thing I have retained from my upbringing - I did not retain the religious element - is the idea that you do not do things for money.

Money You Things Only Idea Element

The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought.

Leadership Day Job World Lost Never

I'm sick of hearing, thinking and talking about Woody Allen. Nonetheless, the allegations against him continue to capture our national attention because so much of the story is strange and sordid.

Sick Story Thinking Talking Capture

In cyberspace, people with different skin colors, nationalities, cultures and languages should be equally entitled to participation, free speech and development. We should abandon prejudices, respect differences, and be tolerant and open.

Respect People Colors Free Speech

Most novelists are narcissistic egomaniacs who would probably fit somewhere on the CEO spectrum.

Somewhere CEO Would Spectrum Most

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