Neil Strauss Quotes
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Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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I'm involved with Kid One Transport and Studio by the Tracks in Alabama. Kid One literally transports kids to better health by giving them transportation they may need to get medical care. Studio by the Tracks is an art outlet for mentally challenged children.
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I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.
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I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
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I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.
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It is neither my intention to depart from the route of John Garang nor to change the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
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Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.
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I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
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If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.
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I felt that it was cool to even get to the point where I was able to audition on the actual 'SNL' stage. Looking back on it, I can't believe that I wasn't more nervous.
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There's no denying it: I was a crappy baby who failed his way into this world, and I've been making the best of it ever since.
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The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.
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We all have different perspectives on the world. I'm a woman. I live in Chicago. I'm gay.
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I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.
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I just keep thinking how lucky I am that I haven't had to sacrifice anything.
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What you wear can be such an indicator of so many things. You know, how you feel, how you want others to perceive you. So, that is an absolutely essential part of building a character.
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Mrs Morel always said the after-life would hold nothing in store for her husband: he rose from the lower world into purgatory, when he came home from pit, and passed into heaven in the Palmerston Arms.
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Nine of 10 whites in Chicago borrow from top-drawer banks and mortgage companies, which the industry calls prime lenders. They lend to people with A credit ratings, making loans at competitive rates.
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The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
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The ignorant are not blissful; they are the butt of a joke they're not even aware of.
