Bernard Sahlins Quotes
Improvisation is not a presentational form, except in small doses, or as a game. It's a tool.
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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
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There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
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My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that voters will be more likely to unthinkingly accept certain political positions so long as they arise from religious belief.
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I got lost but look what I found.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
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Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them.
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You could take Vicodin, step out of the house, onto a freeway, have a truck hit you, and you'd say 'My bad!'.
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I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
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I grew up in a small town in Alabama, and there wasn't much in the way of entertainment, so like our older siblings before us, we drove our pickup trucks out into the hayfield and lit a bonfire.
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Improvisation is not a presentational form, except in small doses, or as a game. It's a tool.
