Lafcadio Hearn Quotes
Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a study for archaeologists...but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
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I would love to do some theater.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted.
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I just have an inability to lie.
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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I think the Tea Party movement is great. I think anybody who has been frustrated over the last few years with the Republicans and Democrats, when they were trying to grow government and have spending and we weren't focusing on creating jobs and get our private sector growing again, I think that's when people started to wake up.
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I try to place what I creatively have to say above who I am.
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A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.
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I started at General Motors at 18 years old as a co-op student at the General Motors Institute, which is now Kettering.
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It probably wouldn't be good for our economy for a bunch of these jobs to come back because, there's no way that people could be getting paid a living wage on some of these jobs - at least in order to be competitive in an international setting.
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Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a study for archaeologists...but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.
