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Susan Sontag

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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE She was indomitable. [About Susan Sontag]
MICHAEL SILVERBLATT There are only two ways of getting on in the world: by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of ot...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE 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 Today, there are problems that could only be solved by people which are still to be born later. This...
TOBA BETA Many of the physical problems can be solved by yogasana (yogic postures), however the imagined probl...
DR HITESH C SHETH I think at this point, the only person that's truly going to be able to help Susan is Susan.
JUDY CORNETT The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the...
KENNETH G. WILSON The Oracles and SAPs of the world are truly dinosaurs. Their extinction is imminent.
GREG GIANFORTE The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited...
JOHN KEATS The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created th...
ALBERT EINSTEIN She taught you how to be a person who refuses anything but the meaningful. [About Susan Sontag]
MICHAEL SILVERBLATT Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.
CHARLES H. PARKHURST Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.
CHARLES HENRY PARKHURST 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 Very few problems cannot be solved by either coffee, wine or chocolate.
EVELYNN CROWE There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem whic...
JOHN FOSTER DULLES Trade problems cannot be solved simply by letting the exchange rate rise or fall.
ZHENG JINGPING Being in despair is the worst thing you can do when facing problems in life. Realistically, your pro...
ERALDO BANOVAC There are only two profound ways to reach enlightenment: Laugh by yourself, or get tickled.
SAURABH SHARMA Susan Sontag was a great literary artist,"a fearless and original thinker, ever valiant for truth, a...
SALMAN RUSHDIE There are many problems which could only
be solved by generations which are still to be
...
TOBA BETA Mankind's problems can no longer be solved by national governments. What is needed is world governme...
JAN TINBERGEN In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. I...
JACK NICHOLSON Only Chuck Blasdel would think he's solved his ethical and legal problems by only partially paying w...
ADRIENNE ELROD Love can only solve half of the world's problems because only half of the world is logical. The rest...
JON CHRISTOPHER GARLAND I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't ...
C. K. WILLIAMS The problems of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq can be solved by political means,
IGOR IVANOV The world has a huge number of trillion-dollar problems wanting to be solved, and biology is the onl...
ARVIND GUPTA I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to t...
SALLY MANN In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. I...
JACK NICHOLSON Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.
MAYA ANGELOU The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since lo...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.
STEPHEN GARDINER There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Wha...
CHAKA FATTAH Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner.
ADA YONATH The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be ...
CARL JUNG The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems -- let's...
AL SHARPTON Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.
ALBERT EINSTEIN At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a ...
B.F. SKINNER Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so wha...
RORY BREMNER I can't solve the problems of the world, but being the best person I can be will certainly lessen th...
JIM GENOVESE The problems of the world are not going to be engaged with and solved in Faversham, they're goin...
JIM CRACE Many problems can be solved by a man not frightened by them.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN If we could eliminate the concept of town and return to live in small villages, all world problems w...
ROSSANA CONDOLEO Many of the problems facing the nation and the world today may only be solved if their technical ele...
JOHN C. MATHER Healthy" and "diseased," as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society ma...
NAOMI WOLF Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved e...
FRANCES PERKINS Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.
CHARLES EDISON The spirit of mammon and the spirit of love of money are the two deep roots of all the problems in t...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Indonesia has many problems that should be solved immediately, not only the problem of East Timor.
XANANA GUSMAO Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN We are calling for restraint and calm, we don't think that the problems will be solved by throwing r...
BEYENE PETROS There are only two ways to be a god: through creation or murder.
YOUNG-HA KIM 99% of all problems can be solved by money -- and for the other 1% there's alcohol.
QUENTIN R. BUFOGLE Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solv...
FRANCES PERKINS I doubt if there is any problem in the world today - social, political or economic - that would not ...
HARRY TRUMAN Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyon...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyo...
JOHN F KENNEDY Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyon...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems o...
PETER USTINOV I've always thought that a lot of the problems in the world would be solved if a spaceship did a...
SIGOURNEY WEAVER Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have ...
ISAAC MAYER WISE Problems created by ignorance are always solved by information. The best information is an inspirati...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Problems are solved by talking. They took the initiative; now they should solve the problem and we'l...
ALI RODRIGUEZ One of the hardest areas is duplication; everyone knows there's lots of duplication in governmen...
JAMES LANKFORD Entrepreneurship is about tackling big problems - often non-obvious problems - that will have a mean...
TRIP ADLER There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for ...
THEODOR WIESENGRUND ADORNO There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for ...
THEODOR ADORNO There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for ...
THEODOR W. ADORNO The cooperation is perfect but there are still some problems to be solved. They are all under contro...
LENNART JOHANSSON The problem of chemotherapy of bacterial infections could be solved neither by the experimental medi...
GERHARD DOMAGK Sometimes big problems are best solved with lots of small and creative solutions.
RICARDO SALINAS PLIEGO I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are...
MARY S. CALDERONE I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are...
DR. MARY S. CALDERONE There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it.
W. C. FIELDS There are only two real ways to get ahead today -- sell liquor or drink it.
W. C. FIELDS A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people
WILL ROGERS A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
WILL ROGERS Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.
JOSé SARAMAGO Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved ...
DALAI LAMA There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.
CHRIS HEIMERDINGER It is only the minority of people who seek self-improvement or personal growth. This is because what...
DAVID R. HAWKINS Profit or perish... There are only two ways to make money: increase sales and decrease costs.
FRED DELUCA There are only two ways to live a life, wait for a miracle or become one.
FAISAL KHOSA Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.
ANN AGUIRRE In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate chan...
CAMERON RUSSELL

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SUSAN SONTAG It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other pe...
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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