Rachel Kushner Quotes

Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.

Rachel Kushner

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Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

Jerry Seinfeld

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Evolution is baseless and quite incredible.

John Ambrose Fleming

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American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England.

John Amery

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I think it was when I realised I could talk anybody into doing just about anything I wanted them to.

Jeremy London

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What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not.

John Gregory Dunne

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Plaid is always cute and always will be. But only on the bottom. At the top, it makes you look like a farmer.

Jen Lancaster

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When you make a stance, sometimes there are consequences.

Andre Ward

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During the 20th century, the greatest danger to European stability was Germany's sense of its special destiny. During the 21st century, the greatest danger to European stability is Germany's reluctance to accept its special destiny.

John Lanchester

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Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

Ann Beattie

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We live in a world full of people who are ready to be uplifted.

Marvin Sapp

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If there's a skateboard in front of me, I can't help myself. I like to jump on.

Luke Rockhold

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Wrong believing puts people in a prison. Even though there are no physical shackles, wrong believing causes its inmates to behave as though they were incarcerated in a maximum-security penitentiary.

Joseph Prince

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