Fred Armisen Quotes
The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that... I feel like that's dead.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.
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The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.
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I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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Make your life about you, and once you build up yourself first, then you can focus on boys.
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To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
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What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
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I don't like to talk about myself.
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At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it for their own reward and then lock the rest up in volatile, insecure and illiquid loans that at times they cannot redeem without public aid.
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I'm totally myself.
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So much time and so little to say..
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Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
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If your brain's not right they have good people at the NHS to help you fix it and talk to and counselling to calm you down and to focus you.
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The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that... I feel like that's dead.
