Abbe Pierre Quotes
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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I admire people like Kristen Wiig, who is hilarious but also does a lot of really cool films. I would love to have a career like hers.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
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Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to pull you in. On TV or in movies, everything is so small. You can just lock into a character and ease yourself into that way.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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The important thing to remember is that bugs don't actually talk.
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The American people have made it abundantly clear that they want less government, not more. They want problems solved in a bipartisan manner, not the creation of new problems.
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I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.
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Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
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Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.
