Jason Molina Quotes
I always lived by railroads, and I would find places to just look at the horizon, and I always expected there was something somewhere else. And sometimes I think that's more a metaphysical somewhere else rather than just to get out of the town.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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My goal isn't to shock.
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I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
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I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel.
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I'm a normal guy.
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You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.
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One voice, speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies, given time; plenty of time.
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Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.
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No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.
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As quoted in Ted Talk 'The child-driven education' by Sugata Mitra (2012)
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Labor’s message then is this: we believe in a strong economy; we believe also in a fair go for all, not just for some.
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Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.
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(on his firing from Two and a Half Men) I would have fired my ass too. Well, maybe not like they did.
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The Republicans are wrong in thinking that the rich create jobs. In reality, many of the richest Americans have been investing in efficiency innovations rather than to create jobs. And the Democrats are wrong, because growth won't happen if they distribute the wealth of the wealthy to everyone else.
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I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to get your law degree and come back here and get elected and be the first woman governor.' I kind of took that guy seriously - I thought that sounded like a pretty good idea.
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I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him.
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When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.
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The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip hop. I never used to be into hip hop, but there's hip hop in the food, soul food, there's hip hop in the cars.
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Astronomers sometimes observe that a star of medium magnitude increases suddenly in size; a star invisible to the naked eye may become very brilliant and visible without any telescope - the appearance of a Nova.
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Music is the purest form of art, and therefore the most direct expression of beauty, with a form and spirit which is one and simple, and least encumbered with anything extraneous. We seem to feel that the manifestation of the infinite in the finite forms of creation is music itself, silent and visible.
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I always lived by railroads, and I would find places to just look at the horizon, and I always expected there was something somewhere else. And sometimes I think that's more a metaphysical somewhere else rather than just to get out of the town.
