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The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.

The American Dream has really good PR. It's kind of difficult to live in the United States and not on some level be pulled into the allure of the American Dream. It's in the DNA of the country. So, for a population coming out of slavery, desperate to become part of the full life of the United States, it only makes sense that they would embrace this route to the American Dream.

"The Anatomy of Terror: From the Death of Bin Laden to the Rise of the Islamic State": I was happy that we finally got him. And a lot of my colleagues and friends that I know who sacrificed so much, some of them their lives, you know, finally can rest, knowing that he's dead.But also, at the same time, I kind of was troubled that we are now not fighting an organization anymore. The terrorists, the threat mutated to a message. Bin Laden accomplished something way bigger. He had a message that was spreading around the Muslim world.

The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, "I think, therefore I am": Americans do not think, yet they are. The American 'mind,' puerile and primitive, lacks characteristic form and is therefore open to every kind of standardization.

The anarchist conclusion is that every kind of human activity should begin from what from what is local and immediate, should link in a network with no centre and no directing agency, hiving off new cells as the original grows.

The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce.

The analyst's psyche operates as a kind of... something to hold on to while somebody's going through therapy, if they're deconstructing their own psyche, if that's cracking up in some way, or dissolving.

The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.

The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.

The applause of silence. is the only kind that counts.

The architecture of the song, if it's built properly, can withstand all kinds of things.

The artist in all societies has traditionally been a kind of barometer, more sensitive to nuances and changes than others, because he is more deeply immersed in his culture and more interested in its meanings.

The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future.

The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.

The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.

The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical.

The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.

The artwork for the record is kind of an homage to that. It's a collage, which rhymes with homage, I just realized. It's an homage to this kind of almost like a teenager's idea of what the future might look like, if he were using a Xerox machine and cut-and-pasting it together. Which is exactly what we did to come up with the artwork.

The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.

Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.

Theater and film are essentially the same - just different kinds of storytelling.

The bad ideas kind of just drop out of the mix. You forget about them. The good ones stick around.

The balm of life, a kind and faithful friend.

The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start at Chapter 3.

The best advice I've been given is kind of the "dance with the one who brought you" thing. You got here on what you do so don't change that.

The benefit to building a startup is that customers don't have the same kind of friction when they adopt new technology.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.

The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.

The best kind of onion soup is the simplest kind.

The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.

The best kind of design isn't necessarily an object, a space, or a structure: it's a process- dynamic and adaptable.

The best kind of performance review is no performance review

The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.

The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.

The best kind of men have a certainty in themselves that isn't done in when countered by a certainty in their women, and they are much adored.

The best marriages, like the best lives, were both happy and unhappy. There was even a kind of necessary tension, a certain tautness between the partners that gave the marriage strength, like the tautness of a full sail. You went forward on it.

The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur-what species of impossibilities are possible.

The best tattooists are in San Francisco, and they're kind of like my family now. I'm always excited to come back to San Francisco.

The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.

The big belly can accommodate all kinds of things. The benevolence is never let a dust behind.

The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts.

The biggest thing that I don't like about L.A. is the sort of 2 a.m. shutdown of everything. It really kind of stagnates the nightlife. It's very hard to casually have fun in Los Angeles. If you want to go out and have fun it's like a full-time job, you have to really prepare, and call ahead, and get on a list, and know somebody... It's really rough to relax here.

The bowl landed, in glorious perfection, atop the head of Mrs Barnaclegoose, who was not the kind of woman to appreciate the finer points of being crowned by trifle.

The biggest share of U.S. exports to the six CAFTA nations is not the traditional job-creation kind. These are products that are not consumed in the purchasing nations.

The book says [Lincoln in the Bardo],"I really need this sci-fi device of a ghost inhabiting another person." You say okay kind of begrudgingly. So the structure seemed informed by need and efficiency.

The Canadian debt-to-GDP ratio will continue to decrease every year, including the first three years under the Liberal government. That is what we're focused on. We know we need to invest in the kind of long-term growth and short-term job creation that Canadians expect, and Liberals the only party offering to do that.

The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.

The camera is a kind of license.