Rachel Kushner Quotes

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

Rachel Kushner

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LightMeThinkWillPossibleWrite

There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.' Now they just say, 'Pay him!'

Jim Carrey

TimePeopleFaceYouSaidSay

Congress has the responsibility to ensure that any international trade agreement entered into by the United States must serve the national interest, not merely the interests of those crafting the proposal in secret.

Jeff Sessions

ResponsibilityCongressSecretServe

Every problem is super-interesting and has its own nuances, and you solve it today, but you try to solve it with an architecture. You build a machine to solve the problems that are like it later. And then you move on to the next.

Travis Kalanick

TodayArchitectureProblemsProblem

A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's called bankruptcy. It doesn't mean, necessarily, that the industry is eclipsed or that it's gone. Often times, the phoenix rises out of the ashes.

Michele Bachmann

FreeProcessAmericanWayMeanOut

I'm actually a fairly conservative person. I live a very conservative lifestyle.

Michael Moore

LivePersonLifestyleConservative

I guess there's only two possible places ideas can come from. One is the outside: everything that happens to you and everything that you do in life. And the other is the inside part: your own personality and imagination, and no two people are alike, like fingerprints.

Lloyd Alexander

LifePersonalityImaginationIdeas

Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.

Jean Baudrillard

IdentityTeethWonderfulMay

A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?

Donald Norman

GoodPeopleEnvironmentStopEthical

Last year, I was proud to be an original co-sponsor of legislation that would increase federal judges' salaries by more than 40 percent. It also built in a cost of living adjustment, so the Judicial Branch would not be dependent on the Legislative Branch for increases each year.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

ProudYearLivingJudgesMoreCost

Funnily enough, the most difficult style to do is the plain pump because it needs to look good on a variety of feet. I compare it to having a good bone structure. Make-up will make you look good, but it helps if you have a good skeleton to begin with.

Christian Louboutin

GoodStyleFeetEnoughYouLook

I was truly ignorant about art before the film.

Claire Forlani

ArtIgnorantFilmBeforeAbout

Raise your ambition beyond where you're capable of now. There's nothing about my hometown that said I'd be working with Fortune 50 CEO's, Olympians, at the highest level.

Brendon Burchard

AmbitionHometownYouSaidNothing

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