Mark Warkentin Quotes
Some coaches are on power trips. I've never needed somebody to tell me I'm not working hard enough.
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All the great artists had their dark sides. Look at Amy Winehouse or anyone who has achieved a certain level of success. Even Adele, and the people that you wouldn't put in the same category as a gangster rapper. These women have exposed their vulnerabilities, demons, and things that have hurt them.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.
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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
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It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.
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The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.
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I like 'Rocky Horror.'
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Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
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The people who used to hold the purse strings were a select group of white, middle-aged men, but that's changing, and the more it continues to change, the more we'll see inclusive stories get told.
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I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.
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I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.
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You either ride life or it rides you. Your mental attitude determines who is 'rider' and who is 'horse.'
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It sucked to make my own CDs. I'm bad at that. It sucks to figure out how to power my amp. I don't know that stuff.
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All those who challenge the abuses of power by the prerogative state, like Snowden, who expose the crimes carried out by government, are turned into criminals. Totalitarian states always invert the moral order. It is the wicked that rule, and it is the just that are damned.
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A lot of publishers have close relationships with people in power. So the press, which used to speak truth to power, doesn't. The big result of that has been the erosion of trust.
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Some coaches are on power trips. I've never needed somebody to tell me I'm not working hard enough.
