Krist Novoselic Quotes
I really like to write, so I can just relax and think about things and realize things and then try to express it on my computer.
Quotes to Explore
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Without the media, the American people won't have the type of information they need to hold their leaders to account. The relationship between government and media has always been strained, and I think most of the time that's a healthy strain.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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My daughter Mira's first media experience was with the first-generation iPad more than five years ago. Her speech therapist used this with her to encourage her to talk, as she was speech delayed. I watched as she immediately navigated the iPad naturally, with such ease.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be demilitarized, there's no way to reverse statehood if it violates it.
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I'm a guy, but I'm not afraid to cry. Not all of the time. But when I'm watching a movie, I'll sometimes shed a tear, especially 'Moulin Rouge'.
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek.
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.
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Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear.
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
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The stage is our pulpit, and you can use all of that energy and that music and the lights and the colors and the sound. But you know, you've got to be careful.
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CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.
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Love is at once an affirmation and a transcendence of who we are.
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We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
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Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
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I really like to write, so I can just relax and think about things and realize things and then try to express it on my computer.
