Bob Weir Quotes
Obviously I believe in reincarnation and all that kind of stuff - I don't think anyone's going to be surprised to hear that.
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The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.
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In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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In a way, being born is a sort of ecological contagion. When you have longevity of family, we remember our grandfathers and maybe our great-grandfathers. We somehow don't have the capacity in modern life to remember further than that. All of the ramifications of their lives have an effect on us, and we're not aware of it.
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I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, 'Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person,' or 'I remember what that day felt like.'
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.
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When I'd go to Israel, I felt like a tourist. My social and professional ties had started to dissolve, and it confused me. I didn't know whether I should stay here in Paris or go back to Israel, or even cut off all my ties with Israel so I could really plant roots here. Or maybe go somewhere else altogether.
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My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
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When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.
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The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.
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I'm always late.
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I think the art world will continue to be a place where people have a certain freedom and creativity to think about what's happening in Cuba.
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A lot of people have put their lives online and are using MySpace to manage their social lives.
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Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow people is not God's refinement.
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Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.
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All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault.
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Obviously I believe in reincarnation and all that kind of stuff - I don't think anyone's going to be surprised to hear that.
