Duane Michals Quotes
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
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I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.
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People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.
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Gymnastics is so huge in the Olympics. There are a lot of fans who want to see more.
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A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.
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In America, it has been proven that the bulk of spending money is in the hands of women between 60 and 80, so it's so stupid. The people who do have the time and money to shop are either retired or empty-nesters.
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Don't shop when you're hungry or in a grumpy mood. You need to feel happy and confident to make the best decisions.
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When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.
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In baseball... you don't stop learning until it's over.
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I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.
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Between Twitter and Facebook, early word of mouth for a film can destroy it immediately or take something you've never heard of and make it a huge hit.
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Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
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You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.
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Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.
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Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
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Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. … It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It's a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.
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'No gold or platt I was simply red from the years i been holdin' back'
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The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fishbowl and tells you their point of view.
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Our land is more valuable than your money. It will last forever. It will not even perish by the flames of fire. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals. We cannot sell the lives of men and animals. It was put here by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us
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Investors don't like uncertainty.
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We are a non-utopian political movement. We are not interested in going nowhere. We are not interested in going to some place we have never been, which we will get to after the revolution because people will be different. The crucial operating premise of the Free Software Movement as a revolutionary politic is: Proof of Concept plus Running code. Here. We did it already. It's sort of working. If you take a copy and help us fix it, it could really be something. Here. You want it? Take it. We like it. It's Free.
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When I am done with this meal you can have my life. It is heaven.
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To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.
