Kurt Andersen Quotes

I often set two alarm clocks because I'm afraid the first one won't actually make me get up.

Kurt Andersen

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If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

Andrew Motion

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I'm Korean-American. Not Colombian. My parents are first-generation, and I'm like... in-between, because I moved over here when I was four or five.

Steven Yeun

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I try and do 2,500 words a day, every day of the year.

Tom Holt

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A wonderful quality about America is that we love redemption stories. We're quick to lash out and assign blame, but we also draw from deep reservoirs of forgiveness.

Judy Smith

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No one is perfect and everyone wishes they could change something about themselves.

Julia Jones

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I was advised by my assistant that the women of the Senate don't do potlucks. To which I responded, 'Of course we do.'

Lisa Murkowski

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Green chemistry is replacing our industrial chemistry with nature's recipe book. It's not easy, because life uses only a subset of the elements in the periodic table. And we use all of them, even the toxic ones.

Janine Benyus

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What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.

Dick Gephardt

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Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

Alison Bechdel

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I had a bunch of paintings around at my house, and someone said to me, 'Why don't you just put them on Instagram? Why don't you show people these?' And I didn't want to - it was just something else I would have to do. But eventually, I was like, 'What's the harm?' And the response was so insane!

Alison Mosshart

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I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York.

Thomas Kinkade

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Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

Thomas Merton

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