Aimee Bender Quotes

I think teaching keeps me honest because if I'm up in front of a class talking about what I think is important about fiction while knowing I myself have just failed to do that hours earlier at my computer - it's a good and humbling reminder.

Aimee Bender

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I think art, more than anything else, helps humans to synthesize emotion and to synthesize parts of ourselves, so therefore, as an artist, I feel a responsibility to try and facilitate that synthesis.

Jennifer Nettles

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The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

Michelle Obama

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You see all these movies of white men saving the world all the time.

Ludi Lin

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Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you'll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music.

Moby

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It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political.

Judith Light

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I don't have the ideal body type for BMX, but just with anything, you have your pros and your cons. And being small kind of allows me to maneuver through the other bigger riders and make passes they couldn't necessarily make.

Donny Robinson

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Audioslave was something that I felt had become a career decision. It became three albums over a period of years touring with a specific group of people.

Chris Cornell

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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While I thought myself employed only in forming a nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.

Antoine Lavoisier

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You can't rush the science, but when the science points you in the right direction, then you can start rushing.

Anthony Fauci

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I have no illusions about our elected politicians. Pakistani democracy is anything but perfect.

Asma Jahangir

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At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch.

Sean Penn

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