Sly Stone Quotes
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Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.
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Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.
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Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
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Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.
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I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.
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My father is a businessman, and my mother is a schoolteacher.
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I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty.
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I didn't realise how my life was changing. When I was 17, 18, 20, I didn't realise how big football was and everything around football. How many people live for football and love football. I was a professional, but I was a supporter.
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Looking through the atmosphere is somewhat like looking through a piece of old, stained glass. The glass has defects in it, so the image is blurred from that.
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I don't have any illusion that The Creeper is as popular or will ever be as popular as any of the classic movie monsters, but I think in the heart of every young horror fan is his desire to create his own creature.
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I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just have to get the frustration out.
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I always know I'm going to lose my job. It's either going to be canceled next week or next year or nine years from now, but I always know my job is going to go.
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Ut ameris, amabilis esto.
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'It's broccoli, dear.' 'I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.'
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... I just know that, right now, … the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.
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I admire my father greatly.
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I married the man of my dreams in 1998.
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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
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Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
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You can make it if you try, push a little harder, think a little deeper.
