M. Ward Quotes
One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
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I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
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In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.
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When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.
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For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.
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New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work, like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone.
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You don't have to work for a big corporation if you don't want to.
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I design my start-up ventures around my own personal beliefs and values.
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I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write.
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One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.
