Bob Weir Quotes
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
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'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.
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Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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Nowadays, with much more racial and ethnic mixing, we are seeing serial killers murdering a variety of victims; whoever comes along will most likely do.
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I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
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I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for - if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are involved in a car accident, then it's a good idea.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
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I had been very focused on the issue of education disparities in our country, and literally, by the time kids are just nine years old, in low-income communities, they're already three or four grade levels behind nine-year-olds in high-income communities.
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The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
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The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!
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But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.
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I don't think you can ease yourself into theater. I just thrust myself into it.
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The sidelong glance is what you depend on.
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I'm terrified of growing up. Once you become an adult, how to you step back from that? It's something that wakes me up at night.
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Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.
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The Grateful Dead played for three hours on a given night, plus sound check.
