Rachel Kushner Quotes

I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.

Rachel Kushner

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I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. That's a big, huge impact on your life and your dynamic and everything - I mean, that's huge. It affects how much you have a break from just concentrating on just one other person in your life. It becomes so myopic that way, and more intense, probably.

Joan Cusack

LifeMoneyParentImpactYouPerson

So I wanna see all of you making out during this song.

Joel Madden

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I don't think human beings have changed in 2,000 years.

Andrew Dominik

ThinkHumanYearsHuman Beings

I seem to watch less and less television. The best thing in 'Downton Abbey' is Penelope Wilton. She is always worth the watch.

John Hurt

BestWorthTelevisionSheAlways

I'm interested in Jeff Bridges. I love that guy. And I did like Carey Mulligan in 'An Education.' And I love Meryl Streep, but if they could ban 'Julie & Julia,' I'd be in favor of that.

Andy Kindler

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One area of liberal phenomenon I support is female bi-sexuality.

Tucker Carlson

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What I've become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you'd rather stick those pencils in your eyes. Sometimes I almost punish myself - if I'm not going be able to write, I'm not going be able to do anything else. I just sit there and wait.

Ron Rash

EyesMyselfHateWaitYouSometimes

I'm quite a confident person in many ways, but there's only so much you can hear about being compared to Hattie Jacques. For the record, she was a comedy goddess, but she was 25 stone. I hope I'm right in saying I'm not in any way nearly 25 stone.

Miranda Hart

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I'm obsessed with working out. I eat like a pig, so it kind of makes up for that.

Millie Bobby Brown

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I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.

Lorde

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We've navigated a lot of change at Campbell's. The best thing for me to be able to do is to discuss that change with people.

Denise Morrison

ChangeBestPeopleMeAbleThing

In running, I can internalize that intensity. I can handle it because it's me and I'm coming back in the next race. I'm always ready for the next race.

Donovan Bailey

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