Rabih Alameddine Quotes

I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.

Rabih Alameddine

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MeThinkNaiveAlwaysCynicalBeing

The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating.

Andrew Goodman

FreedomRoadUphillMustEven

My responsibility is to make judgments about hard, complex issues that I believe to be right.

Jeff Fortenberry

ResponsibilityBelieveI BelieveHard

Close friends, or those in my pay, sometimes call me a literary polymath, while others say that I'm just a shallow dilettante, superficial and breezy, with a faux-naif style.

Michael Dirda

StyleMeFriendsSometimesSayPay

I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.

John Sebastian

StrengthGoodPastMeThinkI Think

Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.

John Updike

PastDarkHeroesPlayingWhoRather

I had me jaw broken, and so my chin stuck way out. That's how I became tough - I learned to pick up anything and fight back.

Roger Daltrey

BrokenFightMeToughBackWay

Rights come from God, not from government.

Roy Moore

GodGovernmentRightsCome

Before there were unions, there was no middle class.

Michael Moore

ClassUnionsMiddleBeforeWere

People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.

Clare Short

MorningSunPeopleMeGlobalization

Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.

Antonio Banderas

TalentYouSometimesMoviesWorking

To get the most from agricultural resources, poor farmers' needs must come first, guiding investment strategies and forming the yardstick for gauging results.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

ResultsInvestmentPoorFarmersGet

Actually, I've done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew - everything. Then you see what happens and you're already committed to dates. I'm just sort of putting out feelers this way.

Paul Westerberg

YouLightsDoneWayBandSee

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