Bill Toomey Quotes
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.
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I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
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There is no one true church.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.
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I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
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In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.
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I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.
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Sometimes if you expose your vulnerability, someone else will feel comforted. It's like we're all in this boat together.
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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
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The course of development
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To me, anything goes. But that's me.
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Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.
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Rubberband man, wide as the teleband9 on my right, .45 in my otha hand
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Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.
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'And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.'
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I grew up in the Valley, and I didn't know any of our neighbors. I think when you grow up like that, there's always sort of a fantasy of a place where everybody knew each other, and you had that safe sort of feeling.
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We do not know when he is coming. He is coming tomorrow.
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One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
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One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.
