Krist Novoselic Quotes
But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling.

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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
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The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
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I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
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When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.
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I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old Testament tradition you find flames, the burning bush.
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History is a set of lies agreed upon.
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Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.
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There's been a huge history of cisgender success on the back of trans stories, which is something I'm deeply aware of. My take on it, I suppose, was that I do think actors should be able to play anything.
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
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I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as a young man.
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In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.
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There's a danger in romanticizing what it means to be a writer. Because what it really means is hard, hard work. It means tearing your hair out. Feeling like your head is about to explode.
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Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.
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When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
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As an actor, I love the feeling of being on set and the camaraderie of working on something together.
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Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history.
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You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.
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Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.
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But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling.