Philip Pullman Quotes
The arts are beyond price; they're beyond value. They're of incalculable worth in what it means to be a human being.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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I always used to watch 'The Daily Show,' and there were all these comedic geniuses there. I didn't know if I was going to be hired full time or not. At the beginning, I was sort of hired as a part time, on and off guy. When I first got hired - it was August 2006 - and I was working on and off, and they'd call me whenever.
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I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
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Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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I view myself as a male artist.
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I don't think it's necessary to feel guilty. Because I know that I'm still doing the work that is going to help more sisters and brothers to challenge the whole criminal justice system, and I'm trying to use whatever knowledge I was able to acquire to continue to do the work in our communities that will move us forward.
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As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.
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Fernand Léger's film, 'Ballet Mecanique' is the result of the desire for a picture in motion.
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In the thousands of articles that made up the technical literature of chaos, few were cited more often than 'Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow.' For years, no single object would inspire more illustrations, even motion pictures, than the mysterious curve depicted at the end, the double spiral that became known as the Lorenz attractor.
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I take it to heart that, for example, there aren't enough funds for AIDS research, but people pay 20 times the value of an item of clothing.
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The arts are beyond price; they're beyond value. They're of incalculable worth in what it means to be a human being.
