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Susan Sontag

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SUSAN SONTAG She was indomitable. [About Susan Sontag]
MICHAEL SILVERBLATT Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. -Susan Sontag.
SUSAN SONTAG Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan ...
CAITLIN MORAN Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from 'The Addams Fami...
CAITLIN MORAN She taught you how to be a person who refuses anything but the meaningful. [About Susan Sontag]
MICHAEL SILVERBLATT You can't think and hit at the same time
YOGI BERRA You can't think and hit the ball at the same time.
YOGI BERRA I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.
DON MARQUIS Susan Sontag was a great literary artist,"a fearless and original thinker, ever valiant for truth, a...
SALMAN RUSHDIE I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to t...
SALLY MANN We want to sound like everybody and nobody at the same time.
JAMIE VARLEY Alexander's widow came to Galesburg for the movie showing at the Orpheum. I think it opened at sever...
RONALD REAGAN I think at this point, the only person that's truly going to be able to help Susan is Susan.
JUDY CORNETT Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.
SUSAN SONTAG Is there an antidote to the perennial seductiveness of war? And is this a question a woman is more l...
SUSAN SONTAG Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.
SUSAN SONTAG All memory is individual, unreproducible - it dies with each person. What is called collective memor...
SUSAN SONTAG It is intolerable to have one's sufferings twinned with anybody else's.
SUSAN SONTAG With time, many staged photographs turn back into historical evidence, albeit of an impure kind - li...
SUSAN SONTAG What is odd is not that so many of the iconic news photos of the past, including some of the best-re...
SUSAN SONTAG No "we" should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.
SUSAN SONTAG Healthy" and "diseased," as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society ma...
NAOMI WOLF I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Nobody walks this earth thinking he's better than I think I am - I think I'm great. At the s...
GARY VAYNERCHUK I learned from Harriet that someone can be stone cold and at the same time act like they care.
CHARLES SOECHTING Boris was a rebounding machine. I think they got cold from the floor and we kind of hit our stride a...
STEVE NASH I had to paraphrase the paraphrase.
PETER ACKROYD It's sort of that perfect storm, where several things happened relatively at the same time.
DR. KENRIC MURAYAMA Technical traders tend to hit the door at the same time because they all use the same type of specul...
FRANK MCGHEE I'm not sure that finding a husband at university made me any less of a feminist or an academic....
JANINE DI GIOVANNI We don't know if the train hit the tree, or the tree hit the train or they hit each other at the sam...
DAN BRUCKER Everybody has a full deck of cards, but nobody wants to show their cards at the same time.
CLAY BARTLETT I think they're doing as much as they can b/c they're not just going to just stand there while someo...
LUCY JOHNSON All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say s...
AIDAN CHAMBERS Every time we hit the ball hard, it seems like it went right at someone.
MIKE FONTENOT Than all the sages can.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Even if no one can love and be wise at the same time, but they can flirt and be wise at the same tim...
VIKRANT PARSAI Was true love when you wanted to slap someone and kiss him madly at the same time?
NANCY WERLIN Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bo...
DAVE VAN RONK Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bo...
DAVE VAN RONK Yeah, definitely, we needed someone to step up and make a play and I didn't get it done. Nobody got ...
AMY SOLAVA Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any context. It could happen in a conversation. T...
JAMES CAMERON In the act of judgement LOVE cannot exist. it’s impossible to Love someone and judge them at the s...
DR.'S RICK AND SUSANN CRAWFORD [About Susan Sontag] Her quest for meaning, for significance was endless. She described life more as...
MICHAEL SILVERBLATT We don't look at their record. They just make more runs than we do down the stretch. Guys tend to hi...
JAMAAL TINSLEY Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling...
KATHARINE HEPBURN I think I can be playing and doing well, but at the same time Ricky is the man and he's doing well,
JASON MAAS You can not have money and time at same time.
WOHI PURANA Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many diff...
ANNA GUNN I suppose if I wanted to be the girl next door, I could have been. I think America is confused by so...
SALLY KIRKLAND Nobody wants to be a scrooge, but at the same time if we are not, we are going to be far worse off.
DEE LEE Someone. Everyone. Anyone. No-one. One. One can't be everyone, but there isn't more than one everyon...
WILL ADVISE ...That they're able to think and reflect on God. We don't all come to the same conclusions at the s...
DIXIE MILLER He's the type of guy that isn't afraid of anyone. He's a bulldog, and I really like that and respect...
BRANDON INGE The Howard Stern Show is a big hit because it entertains dumb and smart people at the same time for ...
ARTIE LANGE I've been through several of his campaigns, and I can tell you nobody can out-campaign Rick Perr...
BLAKE FARENTHOLD I think if you look at exactly where you are, you can't really focus without looking back and fo...
BILL LASWELL The death of one threatens the future of many.
NOBODY I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart....
P.C. CAST They both hit the water at the same time, dove and swam around the boat a couple laps. They set off ...
ANDY NEWMAN Nobody gets lucky all the time. Nobody can win all the time. Nobody's a robot. Nobody's perf...
JOHNNY WEIR To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.
ROGER ZELAZNY I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I me...
EDMUND WHITE Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same...
PETER KREEFT Over the past few days, I have had a sense that I´ve had to keep up to several thoughts in my mind ...
NORWEGIAN PRIME MINISTER KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, sel...
KATHARINE HEPBURN The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
A. J. JACOBS Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS No one can curse and bless anybody at the same time.
TOBA BETA If education were the same as information, the encyclopedias would be the greatest sages in the worl...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Fighting is kind of like choreography. It's not just get in there and punching someone: you have...
EMERAUDE TOUBIA ... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who ...
JANDY NELSON I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.
LATOYA JACKSON To paraphrase the famous Walt saying, Cast Members are there to work so Guests can play.
LESLIE LE MON I think the course is fair. If you hit the fairways and hit the greens, you can shoot a good score. ...
JAY SNYDER He injured his knee and ankle at the same time. When he was scrambling, [he] came up into the line, ...
STEVE ANTONOPULOS I think it is a steppingstone and a milestone at the same time.
ANDY FISHMAN They say that Grandma Moses had several canvases going at the same time. Maybe it was a way for her ...
MARGE SIMON Not at Susan, but he smiled at me.
JOHN DONALDSON I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and s...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC We just didn't play well. Every time we hit a ball it seemed like it went right at someone.
LARRY BIEBER With the improved software, several stars are tracked at the same time, and losing the primary one i...
BERNHARD FLECK I'm multitasking: I can listen, ignore and forget at the same time.
ANONYMOUS You can't go forward and backwards at the same time.
STEVE HARVEY You can cook and make it cozy all at the same time.
LEE SNIJDERS We commend the forest for trying to do more. But at the same time I think everyone realizes a lot mo...
ED BOND It's time for game week. Let's get ready to hit someone else.
MIKE HARRIS Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.
OSHO I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.
PHILIP JOHNSON Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.
JOHN GREEN Use common sense. You can have a great time and be safe at the same time.
LORI REYNERSON I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.
ROBERT PLANT We hit the ball hard all day. We could have scored more runs with 10 hits, but we hit several balls ...
LAURIE MARKATOS ... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read the...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I think we can always do more to get ourselves together, especially at a time of crisis, ... We can ...
GENE GREEN Do not speak ill of the dead.
THE SEVEN SAGES I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
ISAAC HANSON They hit six guys, we hit one guy and we're the ones getting suspended. It seems a little bit unfair...
JOHN PATTERSON You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.
BOB DYLAN

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SUSAN SONTAG One feature of the usual script for plague: the disease invariably comes from somewhere else. The na...
SUSAN SONTAG The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations...
SUSAN SONTAG [Perhaps this is a good thing. And potentially dangerous for a novelist. The dangers are obvious. A ...
SUSAN SONTAG Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ...
SUSAN SONTAG The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste...
SUSAN SONTAG Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
SUSAN SONTAG Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in ou...
SUSAN SONTAG What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women...
SUSAN SONTAG Perversity is the muse of modern literature
SUSAN SONTAG What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual ...
SUSAN SONTAG It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, preciou...
SUSAN SONTAG My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything,'
SUSAN SONTAG I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them
SUSAN SONTAG The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth. . . the pollution of...
SUSAN SONTAG Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
SUSAN SONTAG A great private collection is a material concentrate that continually stimulates, that overexcites. ...
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