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Ellen Ullman Quotes

Before the advent of the Web, if you wanted to sustain a belief in far-fetched ideas, you had to go out into the desert, or live on a compound in the mountains, or move from one badly furnished room to another in a series of safe houses.

Ellen Ullman

Recitation: by Male by Female

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Nationality: american

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Live Mountains Ideas Desert You Go

I think I grew up with the idea that there was something comforting about preparing food.

Joel Robuchon

Food Think Up Comforting Something

Because ALS is underfunded, patients have had no option but to fade away and die. That is not OK.

Steve Gleason

Die Fade Away Because OK Option

I had a few problems. I didn't realise it until I started going to therapy. I did it for 10 years, two days a week, and pretty quickly I understood that a lot of my suffering, many of my issues, were rooted in my realising that I was gay when I was a little boy. I knew I was different. That made me very fragile.

Stefano Gabbana

Suffering Me Problems Week Gay Boy

I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.

Ron Paul

Women Men Support Someone Sometimes

The Philippines must ensure that it adopts, as much as possible, an equi-balancing strategy towards both China and America. To push back against Chinese adventurism by deepening Philippine dependence on another power runs counter to the very logic of protecting its national sovereignty.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Power Push America Strategy Logic

America is always a good target for a populist. In many countries, particularly authoritarian systems, if you want to get an extra bonus, you bash the Americans.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Good America You Target Want Always

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life Health Soul Fade Without Which

Comedy is not something that a person can fake or learn how to do.

Lizzy Caplan

Fake Learn Comedy Person Something

Poets are always making waves. I mean, you know, in an ideal situation, the ideal republic can't tolerate poets because - it isn't that they mutter and criticize; it is that the poet does not accept the situation called the 'perfect' condition of man - in other words, perfect in the materialistic sense.

Derek Walcott

Words Man Waves You Perfect Know

Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song.

Dhani Harrison

Pizza Me Song Someone Bell Theme

The idea that somebody who has done something horrible in a war is not willing to talk about it for 32 years is hardly a shocking idea. Quite the contrary.

Bob Kerrey

War Done Talk Years Something Idea

It's kind of like Silence of the lambs meets Boogey Nights.

Brittany Daniel

Silence Kind Like Nights Meets