Dennis Banks Quotes
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I think I veered towards filmmaking because there's more of a sense of control in it. You're not waiting to be picked. That said, in film school I acted in probably 6,000 student films because no other filmmakers knew anyone who wanted to act. It was all a big beautiful snake eating its tail, progressing along the way.
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All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.'
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Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?
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I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.
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But 'Cuban Linx' was a project that really needed to come, and I really wanted to get it off my chest because I know that the fans were really skeptical about it, like 'is this really gonna be what it's supposed to be?' So once everybody caught it for what it was and everybody was happy, that's mission accomplished for me.
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I'm on this road for the rest of my life.
