Rachel Kushner Quotes

Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.

Rachel Kushner

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PeopleMaskFeelCitizenshipBecome

I've often said, 'If I had one drive to win a game to this day, and I had a quarterback to pick, I would pick Kenny.' Snake was a lot cooler than I was. He was a perfect quarterback and a perfect Raider. When you think about the Raiders, you think about Ken Stabler.

John Madden

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Bob Dole is not a romantic, at least not an immediate one. Bob Dole is not one to waste a lot of time on metaphor.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

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'The White Ribbon' had to be in German because of the subject matter, that was clear. But in the case of 'Amour,' it could have taken place in any country.

Michael Haneke

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We all are originally sinners as Adam and in Adam, his leprosy cleaving faster to us than Naaman's did to Gahazai, so that even the infant, before it has seen the light of the world, has this blemish inherent in its unborn members.

John Wycliffe

LightWorldSeenUsSinnersEven

Time goes on. So whatever you're going to do, do it. Do it now. Don't wait.

Robert De Niro

TimeWaitYouNowWhateverGoing

I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important. There's something a little freeing about it.

Lorene Scafaria

ThinkInterestingYouTableLittle

I fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can't really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it's my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I have to have compassion towards the world.

Joseph Fiennes

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The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.

Jonathan Miller

ExperiencePastThinkYouGoBurden

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

Donald Trump

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I grew up in the middle of everything. I walked the streets alone, I rode the trains alone, I came home at three in the morning alone; that was what I did.

Alicia Keys

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The blockchain is an asset normalization platform that can enable a new liquidity in transactions, hence creating large networks of usage and value effects with benefits in speed, cost, quality, or outcomes.

William Mougayar

QualityValueSpeedCreatingNew

I had a father who was a traveling salesman.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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