"Apathy is grossly undervalued and never there for me when I need it."

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Source : Alafair Burke (2004). “Judgment Calls”, p.18, Macmillan

Alafair Burke

#Apathy Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Your job, with all that mental training and suffering, is just to push your line of breaking so far your opponent can't find it.”
“I have always believed in the magic of childhood and think that if you get your life right that magic should never end. I feel that if adults cannot enjoy a childrenâ€™s book properly there is something wrong with either the book or the adult reading it. This of course, is just a smart way of saying I don't want to grow up.”
“I stand by every movie that I did. I don't regret any decision I made.”
“Iraq may not be the war on terror itself, but it is critical to the outcome of the war on terror, and therefore any advance in Iraq is an advance forward in that...”
“Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don't want that to affect me too much.”
“I started getting afraid of dying. I don't have any religion and I wanted to understand something about these greater powers without anthropomorphizing it.”

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“My parents had a sidewalk cafe: every Sunday there was an accordion player and apparently I went through the motions, squeezing a shoebox. One of the regulars in 'the cafe said to my father: "I think you should get your son an accordion-that's what he's trying to do, with that shoebox." So they got me a little cardboard diatonic accordion-I still have it. I started to play the National Anthem, and things like that. It seems I was musically gifted-but my parents just never pushed in that direction.”
“In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.”

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